Fwd: Words Without Borders, II

[Deborah Hoffman]

That should have read "a more common device in Russian than in English." Sorry!
  

Deborah Hoffman <lino59 at ameritech.net> wrote:
  Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 15:32:53 -0700 (PDT)
From: Deborah Hoffman <lino59 at ameritech.net>
Subject: Words Without Borders, II
To: 
"SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list" <SEELANGS at BAMA.UA.EDU>

  I'm the translator of the Gorlova piece and would welcome any comments about my decision to retain the narrative present tense, a more common device in English than in Russian, in order to retain the immediacy of the text.

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