More on Retranslation, This Time at UCLA

mbs — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:45:14 +0000

On Tuesday, November 23, 2008, I’ll be at UCLA talking to the literary translation workshop of renowned translator Michael Henry Heim on retranslation, in particular, retranslations of Anna Karenina. What are our reasons for producing new translations of the classics, and are those reasons valid? Do these translations serve the author, the translator, the publisher, the reader, or some combination of all four?

Tolstoy translator: “This was a mammoth task”

mbs — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 19:03:43 +0000

Alison Flood speaks to Tolstoy translator Kyril Zinovieff about his new sixty-year-old translation of Anna Karenina in a Guardian Books podcast.

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More on Retranslation, This Time at UCLA

Tolstoy translator: “This was a mammoth task”