Pelevin Question

[Robert Chandler]

That I don't know, and Andrew, I think, is away and out of touch.

R.




> 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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> 
>> 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.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> 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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