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Just so we’re all agreed now:
Crime & Punishment - McDuff
The Karamazov Brothers - Avsey
The Idiot - Avsey
Notes From Underground/The Double - Garnett
Devils - Katz

>> No.17951698

>>17951679
What about McGuire? I read his version of Demons and liked it

>> No.17951742

>>17951698
Maguire is also a good choice for The Devils/Demons

>> No.17951798

>>17951679
Ginsburg's Notes From Underground is better.

>> No.17951815

>>17951679
>The Karamazov Brothers - Avsey
Based. About time more people realised this.

>> No.17951823

>translations
lmao

>> No.17951840
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>>17951823
>>translations
>lmao

>> No.17951845

>>17951679
What about Oliver Ready?

>> No.17951852

>>17951798
I’ve never heard of or seen a Ginsburg translation

>> No.17951871

>>17951798
>some obscure out of print translation
Kek

>> No.17951915

>>17951815
I wish Avsey (pbuh) was able to translate more.

>> No.17952040

The McDuff translation for the idiot is also really good

>> No.17952059

>>17951679
i did not read your jezebel thread

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>>17952059
Why not :(

>> No.17952077

>>17951679
Crime & Punishment - Garnett
The Brothers Karamazov - Garnett
The Idiot - Garnett
Devils - Garnett
Notes from the Underground - Garnett
The Gambler - Garnett
The House of the Dead - Garnett
Poor Folk - Garnett
Mr. Prokharchin - Garnett
Novel in Nine Letters - Garnett
Another Man's Wife and a Husband Under the Bed - Garnett
A Weak Heart - Garnett
Polzunkov - Garnett
An Honest Thief - Garnett
A Christmas Tree and a Wedding - Garnett
White Nights - Garnett
A Little Hero - Garnett
A Nasty Story - Garnett
The Crocodile - Garnett
Bobok - Garnett
The Heavenly Christmas Tree - Garnett
A Gentle Creature - Garnett
The Peasant Marey - Garnett
The Dream of a Ridiculous Man - Garnett

>> No.17952647

>>17952077
thread

>> No.17953680

P&V chads in here?? Waheyyyy

>> No.17953856

>>17952077
I'd rather google TL Rus > Eng than read Garnett's shitty guesswork.

>> No.17953982

>>17953856
It’s just contrarians.Garnett is okay for any other EXCEPT Dostoyevsky.And Gogol

>> No.17954010

>>17952074
because thotposting is disgusting, you're disgusting, the women you post are disgusting, and i think you do not deserve the life you were given

>> No.17954026

>>17954010
she's not a thot you foul beast

>> No.17954431

>>17953680
I'm here. People forget about P&V but they are the best.

>> No.17954450

>>17953680
>>17954431
Im sorry you both got duped.
https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/the-pevearsion-of-russian-literature/
http://www.thinkaloud.ru/feature/berdy-lan-PandV-e.html
https://www.librarything.com/topic/260074
https://readingroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/10/29/the-art-of-translation/#comment-206
http://languagehat.com/the-translation-wars/
http://languagehat.com/more-translation-wars/
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2016/06/23/socks-translating-anna-karenina/
http://languagehat.com/janet-malcolm-vs-pv/
https://kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2013/06/01/why-i-dont-read-pevear-and-volokhonsky-vtranslations/
https://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2013/01/the-pevearvolokhonsky-hype-machine-and-how-it-could-have-been-stopped-or-at-least-slowed-down/

>> No.17954514

>>17951679
Have you tried Oliver Ready? I'm reading his translation of C&P and I find it much better than the other translation.

>> No.17955614

How do you guys differentiate between translations? Do you go read the whole book in each translation or just read a couple exceptional parts?