Untranslated Russian novels that should be

[Marat Grinberg]

On 7/10/11 8:43 AM, Howard Turner wrote:
> 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
>
>
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> 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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Dear Howard,

there is no translation into Hebrew.  Not only Psalom, but certainly all 
of Gorenshtein needs to be translated into English.

Marat Grinberg

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Marat Grinberg
Assistant Professor of Russian and Humanities
Reed College
3203 SE Woodstock Blvd.
Portland, OR 97202

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