The Translator in the Text: On Reading Russian Literature in English (Studies in Russian Literature and Theory (Paperback))

ISBN: 0810111586

Author: May, Rachel

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What does it mean to read one nation's literature in another language? The considerable popularity of Russian literature in the English-speaking world rests almost entirely upon translations. In The Translator and the Text, Rachel May analyzes Russian literature in English translation, seeing it less as a substitute for the original works than as a subset of English literature, with its own cultural, stylistic, and narrative traditions.