Complications of collaborative translation

[Robert Chandler]

Dear all,

My apologies for this posting - I clearly failed to be precise enough with
the publicist at NYRB Classics.

The idea of collaboration and, above all, that of multiple collaboration
over a translation still seems to be so unusual that people do not take it
seriously and end up forgetting about it.  It is complicated still further
by the fact that different people have collaborated with varying degrees of
involvement on different stories in this volume.

The credit for 'Soul', the main work in this collection, reads 'Translated
by Robert and Elizabeth Chandler and Olga Meerson, with Jane Chamberlain,
Olga Kouznetsova and Eric Naiman.'  The title page for the book as a whole
reads  'Translated by Robert and Elizabeth Chandler with Katia Grigoruk,
Olga Meerson and Eric Naiman.'

Sorry to be so complicated - and THANKS once again to the huge number of
other SEELANGERS who have enriched my understanding of Platonov and
contributed to these translations!

Robert



> NYRB CLASSICS is pleased to announce a book signing by award-winning Slavic
> translator Robert Chandler:
> 
> Robert Chandler will sign copies of his translations of Andrey Platonov's
> Soul and Other Stories and Vasily Grossman's Life and Fate at the New York
> Review Books booth at the 2007 Modern Language Association's annual meeting.
> 
> Saturday, December 29th, 4:30 - 5:30 PM.
> Booth 814, MLA Exhibit Hall,  Hyatt Regency
> 
> Soul and Other Stories
> Andrey Platonov
> Translated and introduced by Robert Chandler
> Afterword by John Berger
> The Russian Andrey Platonov is increasingly recognized as one of the
> greatest of twentieth-century writers of fiction, and Soul offers a
> selection of his finest stories. On Robert Chandler's translation, The
> Observer wrote, "Rarely does literature come this close to being music."
> 
> Life and Fate
> Vasily Grossman
> Introduction by Robert Chandler
> ³Grossman¹s account of Soviet life ­ penal, military and civilian ­ is
> encyclopedic and unblinkered...enormously impressive...A significant
> addition to the great library of smuggled Russian works.²‹The New York Times
> Book Review
> 
> 
> Please visit http://www.nybooks.com/nyrb/authors/11616 for more information
> on Robert Chandler and NYRB Classics.
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