Pelevin Question

[Krystyna Steiger]

Hi Marcus,
I'm not sure about "The Life of Insects" but many years ago when I first 
read Pelevin's novel 'Chapaev i Pustota' in translation I noticed there were 
a few segments left out; I think they were limited to parts of the novel 
involving Silver Age poets, such as Blok and Briusov, which would've been 
irrelevant to an English-speaking readership not educated in that particular 
period of Russian literature for obvious reasons, I guess.  I've always been 
curious, though, as to who decided to leave the passages out -- the 
translator Bromfield (whose work I admire) or Pelevin himself. Might be a 
good question for discussion?
Hope I was of some help,
Krystyna
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Marcus Levitt" <levitt at COLLEGE.USC.EDU>
To: <SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu>
Sent: Monday, November 30, 2009 4:02 PM
Subject: [SEELANGS] Pelevin Question


I am teaching "The Life of Insects" (trans. A Bromfield) and notice that the 
ending (as well as a few other places in the text) are not the same as in 
the on-line versions of "Zhizn' nasekomykh" that I have found (e.g.,
http://lib.rus.ec/b/42105/read#t1 ( http://lib.rus.ec/b/42105/read#t1 )). 
What's up here?

Thanks, Marcus



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