Thursday, June 10, 2010
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About Me
- Jenny Davidson
- I have published four novels and four books of literary criticism; I'm currently at work on a book called FOR THE LOVE OF BROKEN THINGS: MY FATHER, EDWARD GIBBON AND THE RUINS OF ROME. I teach in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University.
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June
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- The glamorization of delay and yearning
- Schweine!
- The Joyce-Armstrong Fragment
- Hot dog!
- Steamrollered
- In loving memory of Wendy Buckner, 1959-2010
- Refuse room restaurants
- Chicken chicken
- Boxes, bags, bundles
- An aside
- Four sous/spit
- Indignation against summaries
- "I cannot use that microphone"
- "It's an abominaccino!"
- Snakes, pies
- Friday miscellany
- 101 snakes
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June
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My husband is reading war and peace and really loving it - sounds like excellent sab reading to me!
ReplyDeleteSam read one--can't remember which--a few years ago and loved it. Very curious how long it will take you! And tempted to emulate, even without sabbatical.
ReplyDeleteAK is, I think, fine in the P&V translation. I was less enamoured of their W&P when I looked into it. I think their popularity has worked against them in the sense that it has thrown a lot of work at them with very tight deadlines; and not all the books they've translated are favourites of theirs. I also think their method (V. provides a literal "pony" which P. edits into grammatical English) is not the best route to an acceptably literary translation. I think it is crucial that the "Englisher" should have direct access to the tone and "feel" of the Russian, which P. doesn't. He also is not the most accomplished English stylist, IMO. Proceed with caution.
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