Translation and Bleakness

[Lewis B. Sckolnick]

  When Russian novels come complete with a list of characters and a 
chronology as we see in Thomas P. Whitney's translation of The First Circle
readers start off running for the hills.

The English translation of Doctor Zhivago  and the so called improved 
translation by that first team of translators leaves much out and there 
is a case where I would like to see the ms that they worked from. The 
detail about the location of Lara's house in the Russian version is gone 
and replaced with a few sentences. There is a House of Caryatids in the 
Perm suburb of Studgorodok, that building is now used by the Academy of 
Sciences.

Lewis B. Sckolnick
The Ledge House
130 Rattlesnake Gutter Road, Suite 1000
Leverett, MA 01054-9726
U.S.A.

Telephone 1. 413. 367. 0303
Facsimile 1. 413. 367. 2853
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