Chekhov in French

[FRISON Philippe]

Hello,

Your description lacks precision.

Where was the play staged, by whom and in which translation ?

Chekhov currently tends to be staged in French using mostly the
translation by André Markowicz and Françoise Morvan (at "Actes
Sud" / Babel publishers)

They claim an impressionist approach of translating (and they
retranslated the whole of Dostoyevsky's and also Shakespeare)
rendering style rather than wording, which gave rise to some
controversy on how translations should be conducted.

They are right in the sense that they claim to do a personal translation
of Russian classical works, which should take a place among other
past and future translations.

The only problem is that their translation tends to be "the" only academic
one available in French, preventing publishers form accepting works by
other translators.

Philippe Frison
(Strasbourg, France)


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Dear Seelangers

A student of mine has just been to see a production of the Seagull in French.
She noticed a discrepancy between the translation of the play which she read in French and the text used by the cast.
She felt that the language of the translation used in that production was considerably less 'flamboyant' and more'
modern' than that which she had read and reached the conclusion that the production modified the language to
make it more accessible to 21st century audiences.
It is my feeling that the less 'flamboyant' translation is possibly closer to Chekhov.

I would be very interested to get your opinions

Thanks

AM


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