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.
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 [...]
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. [...]
A year after publishing the cloth edition, Yale University Press has come out with a paperback edition of my translation of Mikhail Bulgakov’s White Guard. For more info, click here.
The Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies (CREES) has invited me to discuss my new translation of Mikhail Bulgakov’s White Guard and the art and politics of retranslation on Wednesday, November 19th, at 2 PM, in the Asian Culture Room, Texas Union 4.224. The public is very much invited.
Nina Berberova, a Russian-born poet, novelist, playwright, critic and professor of literature whose biography is a classic of the Russian émigré Diaspora, died on Sunday at a nursing home in Philadelphia. She was 92.
The graphics used on this site were inspired by the work of Liubov Popova (1889-1924), a Russian artist and designer influenced by Constructivism and Futurism, as seen in her biography, by D.V. Sarabianov and N.L. Adaskina, Liubov Popova, translated by Marian Schwartz and published by Harry N. Abrams in 1990.