Pelevin Question

[Krystyna Steiger]

I guess I meant how Pelevin and Andrew Bromfield decided together to exclude 
those particular passages and their reasons for doing so, rather than whose 
call it was.
best regards
Krystyna
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From: "Robert Chandler" <kcf19 at DIAL.PIPEX.COM>
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Sent: Tuesday, December 01, 2009 1:30 AM
Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Pelevin Question


>I know and greatly admire Andrew's work, and I don't think he would mind my
> answering tentatively on his behalf.  I know that in most, and very likely
> all, cases, he discussed these questions, by correspondence, with Pelevin.
>
> R.
>
>
>
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>> 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
>>
>>
>>
>> Marcus Levitt, Associate Professor
>> Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
>> University of Southern California College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
>> Los Angeles, CA 90089-4353
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