Translation of Revizor?

[Michael Denner]

The Dover Edition translation (Seymour & Noyes) is totally serviceable, easily obtained, and only costs $1.50. I've used it in literature courses -- it's very readable and the (now) slightly archaic language of the translators suits Gogol fine. Of course it fails to convey the sublime silliness of his language completely... 

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Dr. Michael A. Denner
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Isham [mailto:jfi1 at COLUMBIA.EDU]
> Sent: Friday, February 25, 2005 10:19 AM
> To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU
> Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Translation of Revizor?
> 
> 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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