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Creating translations that are faithful, not literal

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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Humor in the Human Condition

On the occasion of Yale University Press’s paperback edition of Oblomov, Katherine A. Powers has a glowing review in the Boston Globe: The expression “great comic novel” attached to a title usually causes me to drop everything and rush off to the library to secure what I consider to be one of the prime reasons for [...]

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Yale UP’s Modern Take on Oblomov

Here is Yale University Press’s sleek modern cover for its paperback edition of my translation of Oblomov, scheduled for publication in February 2010.  Incredibly handsome, I think.  I wonder whether Oblomov ever slept barefoot.  Or under satin sheets, for that matter.  For more about the book, or to pre-order (you know you want to), click here.

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Oblomov, by Ivan Goncharov

          Oblomov By Ivan Goncharov Translated by Marian Schwartz Afterword by Mikhail Shishkin Seven Stories Press, 2008; paperback ed., Yale University Press, 2009  A Slate Best Book of 2008 Set at the beginning of the nineteenth century, when idleness was still looked upon by Russia’s serf-owning rural gentry as a plausible and [...]

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