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“Intense Lyricism” of Slavnikova’s 2017

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 for [...]

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Slavic Professor Reviews White Guard

I was thrilled to read a very positive review of my translation of Mikhail Bulgakov’s White Guard by Sidney Eric Dement of the University of Kansas in the Slavic and East European Journal.  He begins: In the course of their life in translation, the best novels shed their skin more than once. The time for Mikhail [...]

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Slate Picks Oblomov

The translator is always the last to know.  Slate chose my Oblomov translation as one of its Best Books of 2008!  Read about it here.  And be looking for the paperback edition, coming in February from Yale University Press.

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Michael Wood Reviews Oblomov in London Review of Books

“This intimately funny and desperately sad novel opens with a parade of visitors to Ilya Ilich Oblomov’s Petersburg flat. Most of them are introduced, in this new translation, by the phrase “in walked”, which creates a wonderful sense of flatness, repetition and invasion. All but one of the visitors are busy in some way or [...]

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The Independent Praises White Guard

Boyd Tonkin at The Independent has given my translation of Mikhail Bulgakov’s White Guard a short but very sweet review: Marian Schwartz's pacey and compelling new translation of this most unstuffy classic captures a wonderful chronicle of the Russian Revolution and its aftermath as a colourful, absurd and even merry cocktail of nightmare and farce. For the [...]

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White Guard, by Mikhail Bulgakov

White Guard By Mikhail Bulgakov Introduction by Evgeny Dobrenko Translated by Marian Schwartz Yale University Press, 2008; paperback ed. 2009 Winner, 2009 AATSEEL Award for Best Translation into English White Guard, Mikhail Bulgakov’s semi-autobiographical first novel, revolves around a Ukrainian family in their home city of Kiev in 1918. Alexei, Elena, and Nikolka Turbin, adult siblings who [...]

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