Untranslated Russian novels that should be

[Howard Turner]

Dear All,

Many thanks for your advice on this.  There seemed to be no consensus--there 
weren't any books mentioned more than once.  The subject of Dmitri Bykov caused 
some disagreement, not for the first time.  Of course, he and (I presume) his 
rights were at the London Book Fair earlier this year, so hardly an unknown 
quantity.  But I've passed your responses on to the publisher anyway.

My own candidate would be Psalom(1975) by Fridrikh Gorenshtein, which in my 
opinion is a wonderful book--among other things a reply to Dostoevsky (and 
Bulgakov) from a Jewish standpoint  and a cosmic drama projected onto the 
author's own experiences as a hungry and  abandoned child.  I've shared some 
further thoughts about it with the Internet at  http://wp.me/pBfTB-GI .  


I also have a couple of questions about the book that SEELANGS may know the 
answer to:

--is there any obvious reason it was never translated into English?  (There are 
French and German translations.)
--I have the  feeling I read something about a translation into Hebrew, but 
can't find any trace of one.  Does anyone know if there is one?

Thanks again for your help

 Howard Turner






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From: Howard Turner <howard_s_turner at YAHOO.CO.UK>
To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu
Sent: Sat, 2 July, 2011 13:18:39
Subject: [SEELANGS] Untranslated Russian novels that should be

A couple of months ago I was at a discussion organised 
Dear SEELANGS,

A couple of months ago I was at a discussion organised by some publishers here 
in London who were looking for books (novels, perhaps fiction in general) for 
translation from Russian, among a number of other languages. 


I wonder if SEELANGERs have some ideas to put forward?  It's not a question for 
prolonged research, but something at the level of 'I wish *that* was translated 
so I could give it to my family and friends'; 'I've never understood why *that* 
hasn't been translated'  [etc]

If any consensus emerges I'll pass it on.  Meanwhile I have my own candidate, 
and I may well be seeking the expert advice of SEELANGers about it in the near 
future.

Thanks for your attention,

Howard Turner

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