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Have you read Falen's translation? I think he's the best translator of Pushkin into English.
by idlewords 11y ago
Have you read Falen's translation? I think he's the best translator of Pushkin into English.
- mynegation 11y agoNo, I have not. I managed to find only a few stanzas of Falen online after a quick search, so my assessment is definitely too quick and too dirty. I had an impression that Falen's translation is similar to Johnston's, but tries to be even closer to the original at the price of using more archaic and arcane words (at least for non-native English speakers like me). I was immediately thrown off by the usage of "base" as adjective meaning "dishonourable", and "pat" as "glib". I also had to look up words, such as "prate". Not a problem of translation per se, but rather of the expanse of my English vocabulary. Interesting trade-off.