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Dostoyevsky is fundamentally untranslatable. Here’s a great example.

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James Ehrlichman Reinhard Koenigvor 17 Tagen

I hear about Dostoyevsky and get kind of bummed out I can't speak Russian. But have you ever read any Twain or Shakespeare in Russian and what do they miss? Also, I know this is a long shot, but I wonder about the Russian translation of Call of The Wild and wonder what they would miss in that. Or even in the short story To Build A Fire. But man, you're lucky, I loved War and Peace and Anna Karenina and always wondered what it would be like to read them in Russian. Take care.

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Jimmyvor 17 Tagen

Some of the most prominent translators of Russian literature disagree with this view. Several of them have repeatedly said that nothing is lost when taken as a whole, just slight differences in sentences here and there. Think you're talking nonsense.

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Marcel Mayvor 17 Tagen

Nobody, nothing, is fundamentally untranslatable. Failed translations abound due to translators' fundamental unawareness of target language resources.

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Please contact my office to license my commentary.vor 17 Tagen

is the library beach towel because your home is as filthy as your desk and microphone

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Marcel Mayvor 17 Tagen

Why do you say we have to start the sentence with the subject in English? Millions of literary works in English provide evidence to the contrary: Sick, mean and unattrative, I am / The sick man, mean and unattractive that is me / This sick man, mean and obnoxious, etc.

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Katie 🐝vor 17 Tagen

Dang, going to have to learn Russian now. This wasn’t supposed to be on my life’s bingo card. 😩

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Interzone826vor 17 Tagen

How does one translate vocal fry?

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Mosqueterovor 17 Tagen

Nothing is fundamentally untranslatable: every great book already lives in a state of perpetual migration, and a “faithful” original is merely the first of many possible dreams.

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BookwormDavevor 17 Tagen

So...don't read him? Got it.

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David N. Schwartzvor 17 Tagen

Never knew this!

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John Olsonvor 17 Tagen

You're kinda talking me out of reading Dostoyevsky. If I can't fully appreciate it without reading Russian well, there's a deep bench in the western canon in English?

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Danielavor 17 Tagen

Same can be said about any translation

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Bangvor 17 Tagen

Did you read it in the source material?

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theParadoxvor 17 Tagen

Russian is a difficult language

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Christian Autyvor 17 Tagen

Fantastic, thank you. There is a lovely video of Borges discussing the richness of English compared to Spanish. I wonder if the same is possible with Russian, but compared to English. I suspect it is not just the translation but the language itself that is the difference

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