Fwd: [SEELANGS] Translating in the Dark by Tim Parks | NYRblog | The New York Review of Books

[Robert Chandler]

Thank you, David, for bringing this excellent article to our attention!

R.

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> From: David Powelstock <pstock at brandeis.edu>
> Date: 4 December 2011 15:18:16 GMT
> To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu
> Subject: [SEELANGS] Translating in the Dark by Tim Parks | NYRblog | The New York Review of Books
> Reply-To: pstock at brandeis.edu
> 
> 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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