translation gaps

[ALEXANDRA IOANNIDOU]

Very interesting is the german tranlation of Viktor Erofeev's "Choroshij 
Stalin". All pejorative passages about the Germans have remained 
untranslated! I wonder whether Erofeev knows and has approved of it...
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From: "Alina Israeli" <aisrael at AMERICAN.EDU>
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>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.
>>
>
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