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Both of the writers were acceptable to the USSR and were thus translated and available. Without market pressures you had absolute top writers and poets of the a
by andreskytt 6y ago
Both of the writers were acceptable to the USSR and were thus translated and available. Without market pressures you had absolute top writers and poets of the age translate children’s books and the results were marvellous. I owe these two writers large chunks of what I am now. In midst of soviet misery there was wonder, thought, friendship. The quiet happy family life I did not have. But also material things like being able to sell cherries on the roadside. The boys in the pictures wore boots!
- quintushoratius 6y agoHow interesting that the Soviet government didn't mind. Another commenter in a different thread relayed that the French government found the books "subversive" and banned faithful translations; the hacked translations that were allowed (understandably) bombed.
- bzbarsky 6y agoOh, there were market pressures, of a sort. The top writers and poets doing the translation were doing that because they were unable to get their own work published, due to not being considered ideologically aligned enough with the government. And they needed to live somehow, and avoid being jailed for not having a job.