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Since I don't understand Russian, is there any English translation that you'd recommend over another? I've only ventured slightly into Russian litarature (Engl

Since I don't understand Russian, is there any English translation that you'd recommend over another? I've only ventured slightly into Russian litarature (English translations thereof) with "The death of Ivan Ilych" and "the dream of a rediculous man". I consider the former to be one of the best books I have read this year, and would like to give TMaM a try but always have trouble deciding on a translation.

thelastidiot 8y ago
I read that one and I was happy with it: The Master and Margarita Paperback – March 19, 1996 by Mikhail Bulgakov (Author), Diana Burgin (Translator), Katherine Tiernan O'Connor (Translator) Of course, Amazon will provide reviews for all translations in one big bucket so it's hard to know which one gets the best review. You can go to sub reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/1lngmm/which_the_master_and_margarita_translation_should/ https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/1lngmm/which_the_mas...
80801 8y ago
Richard Pevear & Larissa Volokhonsky. Since they get so much praise, anything russian I have read was translated by them.
- FabHK 8y ago
  And they did the Penguin 50 yr anniversary edition [1]. It has some useful notes at the end, too. I found the notes in the Annotated Lolita [2] very helpful, unfortunately I haven't really found an annotated version of M&M (beyond what's in [1]). [1] https://www.amazon.com/dp/0143108271 https://www.amazon.com/dp/0143108271 [2] https://www.amazon.com/Annotated-Lolita-Revised-Updated/dp/0679727299 https://www.amazon.com/Annotated-Lolita-Revised-Updated/dp/0...
- billfruit 8y ago
  They have many critics also who refuse to buy into the Pevear-Volokhknsky hype, even considering their translations as 'disastrous': https://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2013/01/the-pevearvolokhonsky-hype-machine-and-how-it-could-have-been-stopped-or-at-least-slowed-down/ https://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2013/01/the-...

thelastidiot 8y ago

I read that one and I was happy with it: The Master and Margarita Paperback – March 19, 1996 by Mikhail Bulgakov (Author), Diana Burgin (Translator), Katherine Tiernan O'Connor (Translator) Of course, Amazon will provide reviews for all translations in one big bucket so it's hard to know which one gets the best review. You can go to sub reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/1lngmm/which_the_master_and_margarita_translation_should/ https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/1lngmm/which_the_mas...

80801 8y ago

Richard Pevear & Larissa Volokhonsky. Since they get so much praise, anything russian I have read was translated by them.

FabHK 8y ago
And they did the Penguin 50 yr anniversary edition [1]. It has some useful notes at the end, too. I found the notes in the Annotated Lolita [2] very helpful, unfortunately I haven't really found an annotated version of M&M (beyond what's in [1]). [1] https://www.amazon.com/dp/0143108271 https://www.amazon.com/dp/0143108271 [2] https://www.amazon.com/Annotated-Lolita-Revised-Updated/dp/0679727299 https://www.amazon.com/Annotated-Lolita-Revised-Updated/dp/0...
billfruit 8y ago
They have many critics also who refuse to buy into the Pevear-Volokhknsky hype, even considering their translations as 'disastrous': https://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2013/01/the-pevearvolokhonsky-hype-machine-and-how-it-could-have-been-stopped-or-at-least-slowed-down/ https://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2013/01/the-...