about translators and translation and child reading

[Alina Israeli]

I'd like to add a book that was popular a little bit before the  
Lingren books or maybe just about at the same time, it was the book  
by a Norwegian writer Anne-Catharina Vestly which we knew in Russian  
as "Papa, mama vosem= detej i gruzovik", actually available on-line:  
http://publ.lib.ru/ARCHIVES/V/VESTLI_Anne-Katerina/_Vestli_A.- 
K..html. And now that I look at the web, it had follow up volume that  
appeared much later.

There is something peculiar about the naive Scandinavian narration.

On May 31, 2010, at 11:02 PM, Robert A. Rothstein wrote:

> Alina Israeli wrote:
>> There were some other translated books that were a much better  
>> read than the Russian originals.
>>
> And vice versa: as far as I'm concerned, Vinni-Pukh is better than  
> Winnie-the-Pooh, and Fenimore Cooper is probably more readable in  
> Russian than in English.
>
> Except for Alina's mention of "Karlson," I don't think anyone  
> recommended Russian translations from other languages. Among the  
> authors on our reading menu (at different ages) were Jules Verne,  
> Alexandre Dumas, Jaroslav Hašek, Oskar Lunts ("Vesna" - from  
> Estonian), Leyb Kvitko (from Yiddish), ne govoria uzhe o skazkakh  
> raznykh narodov. Our son - now forty - can still quote such things  
> as "Ia nad vami ne smeius'" (from one of the Dumas novels) and  
> "Vielleicht Katzendreck, Herr Oberst" (left in the original in Petr  
> Bogatyrev's translation of "Švejk").
>
> Bob Rothstein
>

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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