Grossman: VSE TECHET: poznala & uznala

[Boudovskaia, Elena]

you are right, "got/came to know", but with Church Slavonic/ Biblical / archaic and elevated connotations. To me, it conveys the idea of epic proportions (of Russia? of Stalin? of the process?). I would also think of "slowly got to know", but that may be my personal impressions.


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Subject: [SEELANGS] Grossman: VSE TECHET: poznala & uznala
 
Dear all,

Grossman begins one of the historical chapters like this:
   ??? ??????? ??????? ??????? ? ??????? ??????.
   ?????????????????? ??????, ??????????? ? ???????, ??????? ????.
   ????????  ??????  ?????  ?????????  ????????? - ?????, ????????, ????????
?????????????   ?  ???????????  ????????????  - ??  ?????????  ????????????
???????  ????,  ????? ??????.  ????,  ???????????  ???????????, ??? ??????
????????? ???????? ????????? ? ??????? ?????? ???????? ? ?????.

Cheking through the proofs of my translation of this work, I find myself
stumbling on the second sentence:
Russia knew her own self  ??
Russia recognized her own self ??
Russia got/came to know her own self ??

The second option is the most obvious in English, but Grossman could have
written 'uznala sebya', and he chose not to.  At the moment I am leaning
towards the third option - "got to know".  What do other people think?

All the best,

Robert  

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