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Richard Pevear & Larissa Volokhonsky. Since they get so much praise, anything russian I have read was translated by them.
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Richard Pevear & Larissa Volokhonsky. Since they get so much praise, anything russian I have read was translated by them.
- FabHK 8y agoAnd 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 agoThey 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-...