Tag Archives: 2017

“Intense Lyricism” of Slavnikova’s 2017

By mbs | Published: July 5, 2010

Karen Vanuska, in her “writer’s journal of her reading and writing life,” has posted a flattering review of my translation of Olga Slavnikova’s 2017: It wouldn’t be summer if I didn’t pick up a Russian novel.  Though I received my review copy of 2017 by Olga Slavnikova back in March, I decided to save it [...]

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2017, by Olga Slavnikova

By mbs | Published: May 4, 2010

  2017 By Olga Slavnikova Translated by Marian Schwartz Overlook Press, 2010   In a translation funded by the National Endowment for the Arts and executed to perfection by prize-winning translator Marian Schwartz, 2017 is part literary romance, part political thriller, and a stunning tale of adventure, fantasy and obsession. Set in the near future, [...]

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Lizok’s Bookshelf Reviews Olga Slavnikova’s 2017

By mbs | Published: April 21, 2010

Lizok’s Bookshelf (written by Lisa Hayden Espenschade) has posted an interview with me about some recent translations of mine and even a cheerful thought on the future of foreign literature publishing in this country.

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Praise for Olga Slavnikova’s 2017

By mbs | Published: April 20, 2010

Lots of good reviews have come in for my translation of Olga Slavnikova’s “rambunctious” (as Donna Seaman describes it for Booklist) novel, 2017: Seaman writes one of the most accurate descriptions of the book I’ve read: Strange things are happening in the rugged Riphean Mountains in this rambunctious novel of Russian society 100 years after [...]

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Creating translations that are faithful, not literal

By mbs | Published: April 4, 2010

On the heels of the publication of Olga Slavnikova’s 2017 (Overlook) and the paperback edition of Ivan Goncharov’s Oblomov (Yale), an interview with me in the Boston Globe. 

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Kyle Semmel on Slavnikova’s 2017 for Three Percent

By mbs | Published: March 30, 2010

Kyle Semmel of the Writer’s Center in Bethesda, Maryland, has given my translation of Olga Slavnikova’s 2017—just out from Overlook Press—a very nice review indeed: It’s hard not to think of twentieth-century Russian history as you crack open 2017, Olga Slavnikova’s Russian Booker Prize winning novel. The year 2017 will mark, of course, the 100th [...]

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