When ПушкинComes to Shove

[Charles Mills]

SEELANGS shall be the poorer for it if you take it off list.  I for one was
finding it an interesting conversation.

C. Mills



On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 6:59 PM, Judson Rosengrant <
jrosengrant at earthlink.net> wrote:

> Sure, Inna, let's continue off-list, since the matter has many dimensions.
> But let me say before we do that I'm not 'dismissing' anything but rather
> attempting to define accurately what verse translation is and can be as a
> matter of its ontology.
>
> I want to acknowledge that it is not translation in the same same sense and
> with the same criteria of accuracy as generally obtains with prose.  Would
> you accept a version of Dostoevsky that merely 'left the reader haunted by
> a
> line or an image, which was hopefully, though not always, most
> representative' of his intention?  I don't think you would, and to me that
> practical awareness of a difference is not especially odd or controversial.
> But, on the other hand, the consequences of failing to keep the difference
> between verse and prose translation firmly in mind and before the user can
> be destructive.  It can mislead innocent readers and generally cheapen the
> quality of our representation and understanding of foreign literatures and
> cultures, the very things we are duty bound to serve as scholars and
> translators, as essential intermediaries.
>
> There has been much discussion of these issues in English and of course in
> other languages over the centuries, and that is as it should be, since the
> issues are important and there are no easy answers to any of them.
>
> Jud
>
>
> Judson Rosengrant, PhD
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