translation gaps

[Alina Israeli]

I believe the Group Portrait with Lady by Heinrich Böll in its Russian  
translation had omissions regarding Russian characters in post-war  
Germany. I think the main Russian character's name was (the typical)  
Boris.


Dec 15, 2010, в 8:41 AM, Robert Orr написал(а):

> Not just P G Wodehouse.  (sorry for the delay in this post).  In  
> Dorothy
> Sayers' Lord Peter Wimsey novel "Have his Carcase", the murder  
> victim is a
> Russian who may have committed suicide (not to spoil the plot).  The  
> coroner
> at the inquest (it may not have been him, quoting from memory here,  
> but
> someone at the inquest does) comes out with a lot of stuff about that
> "unhappy country", etc. etc., and says that he has read Russian  
> novels, not
> surprising it was a suicide, etc. etc.
>

Alina Israeli
Associate Professor of Russian
LFS, American University
4400 Massachusetts Ave.
Washington DC 20016
(202) 885-2387 	fax (202) 885-1076
aisrael at american.edu

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