translator question

[Alina Israeli]

True, but seems to be a real person and Nabokov disliked the  
translation:

http://books.google.com/books?id=fif5PUvlu_cC&pg=PA15&lpg=PA15&dq=%22Winifred+Roy%22&source=bl&ots=2lrk4mNW7D&sig=8Ot_zJG1z3T9gEtwxJQYxU5dkno&hl=en&sa=X&ei=to5TUOaAPLCy0QGm4YCgDg&ved=0CDIQ6AEwAQ#v 
=onepage&q=%22Winifred%20Roy%22&f=false

http://books.google.com/books?id=1qfhBbklYnIC&pg=PA446-IA7&lpg=PA446-IA7&dq=%22Winifred+Roy%22&source=bl&ots=dIWOwdgKQp&sig=-wjd8OdRs2IvV6q8yExzR8Ts5tI&hl=en&sa=X&ei=BpBTUI6zMueV0QGDhYEw&ved=0CDYQ6AEwAjgK#v 
=onepage&q=%22Winifred%20Roy%22&f=false

On Sep 14, 2012, at 3:34 PM, Jules Levin wrote:

> On 9/14/2012 9:03 AM, Valentino, Russell wrote:
>>
>> “Do you have any information about a Nabokov translator named  
>> Winifred Roy? She translated Camera Obscura into English, it was  
>> published in 1936 by John Long in London. Nabokov is on the record  
>> saying that he despised her translation, and later he rewrote/ 
>> retranslated it as "Laughter in the Dark" using a great deal of her  
>> prose but erasing her name entirely. Other than this there is very  
>> little known about her. Any info or names of good potential  
>> resources for this kind of research would be helpful.”
> Maybe she was invented by Nabokov to cover his first not very good  
> translation into English... Sort of thing he would do.
> Jules Levin
>

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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