Translation of Revizor?

[John Isham]

In appendix C (p. 545) of *The Western Canon* Harold Bloom
recommends the translation by Adrian Mitchell.  Bloom's approval
here obviously tells us nothing about the translation's accuracy,
but he is generally a very fine judge of what reads well in
English.

Does anyone have an opinion on the Mitchell translation?  In my
undergrad drama class at Drew I had the students read from F. D.
Reeve's translation of *Revizor* (from the first volume of his
Vintage anthology).  As is the case with all of his translations,
Reeve is extremely accurate (slavishly so, in fact) but he fails
somewhat in conveying both the liveliness and craziness of Gogol's
original text.

John Isham




Цитирую pjs <pscotto at MTHOLYOKE.EDU>:

> Can anyone recommend a good English translation of Revizor? Is
> there one?
>
> Peter Scotto
> Mount Holyoke College
>
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