translation gaps

[Robert Orr]

This does not refer to Russian literature, but it does refer to Russia, and may be of some interest.  The English translation of Jean Raspail's apocalyptic "Le camp des saints" that I have seen includes a scene from the Russian border with China.

The French version I have seen, which ought in theory to be the source, however, omits that scene altogether.

    

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From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list [mailto:SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of ALEXANDRA IOANNIDOU
Sent: Monday, December 20, 2010 5:06 AM
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Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] translation gaps

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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