Translating in the Dark by Tim Parks | NYRblog | The New York Review of Books

[David Powelstock]

An interesting meditation on literary translation and knowledge of the
source language:

http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2011/nov/30/translating-dark/

Compare Gary Saul Morson's critique of the Pevear-Volokhonsky translation
methodology (and its results) in the July/August 2010 issue of *Commentary*(
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/article/the-pevearsion-of-russian-literature/;
unfortunately you need to pay for the article, subscribe, or visit your
library).



Cheers,
David Powelstock

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