/lit/ - Literature

SOUL

must depend on the translation. I don't remember seeing this

>>21306413
It's just Wordsworth being Wordsworth.

>>20741572
I am not wrong tho am I??

A classic

>>18014947
right you are

>>17997687
based

Anything by Wordsworth Classics, just google them.

Anyone who regularly browses Russian literature threads on here has inevitably run into posts that shit on P&V, and these posters usually backup their insults with articles that accuse P&V of being bad translators, the most notable one being Gary Saul Morson's "The Pevearsion of Russian Literature" hitpiece. Using these articles, the people who hate P&V vehemently argue that all of the love that P&V have received is shilling by critics who don't know any Russian and thus have no idea how to properly assess P&V's work. Some go even further, claiming that translators who know Russian despise P&V.

However, these claims are patently false. Here are five examples that refute the "no Slavic scholars like P&V" argument:
Caryl Emerson, a Slavic scholar who has translated Russian works into English, highly praised their translation of The Brothers Karamozov (see: https://www.jstor.org/stable/3851924?seq=1).).
Michael Henry Heim, another Slavist translator, loved their Dostoevsky translations (see: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-10-16-bk-50750-story.html).).
Andrei Navrozov, a Russian who is the son of a translator, lauded their translation of TBK (see: https://www.nytimes.com/1990/11/11/books/dostoyevsky-with-all-the-music.html))
Joseph Frank, the leading Dostoevsky scholar who wrote the definitive Dostoevsky biography, said of their translation of TBK: "[I] [h]eartily [recommend it] to any reader who wishes to come as close to Dostoevsky’s Russian as it is possible." (he provided this blurb for the publication of their translation of TBK).
Angela Livingstone, a Pasternak scholar who wrote a book on Doctor Zhivago and has translated some of Pasternak's texts, was impressed with their translation of Doctor Zhivago (see her "Meaning Every Word of It" article that was published in The Times Literary Supplement)
And there are plenty of other people who are intimately familiar with the Russian language and Russian literature who have praised P&V.

1/2

>and my axe!

Hey /lit/, apart from the ridiculous covers is there anything else wrong with WORDSWORTH classics? Like shit translation or something? I've found a very good deal

>>16837860
This but it's Dostoyevsky's lesser of his three big novels

>>16530904

Why are Wordsworth Classics covers so unbelievably terrible?

>>15825558
This is my personal favourite, I actually own this copy and it’s simply breathtaking.

>>15521642
What are you talking about nigger, Wordsworth covers are based

Obligatory

>>14582597
based

£2

>>13595029
Look at the top of his head!!

A thread dedicated to based Wordsworth book covers