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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great translation, lovely stories, awesome edition
I loved this book. I think the translation feels fluid, modern, and on point with the historical context. The Norton critical edition provides a number of letters and essays on this, perfect for a scholar. Beautiful novel, interesting, progressive characters that depict a shift in Russian thought in the volatile 1840s.
Published 10 months ago by Matt Newton
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4 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Terrible Translation
Turgenev is wonderful. This translation is awful. The translator does not / can not speak English. It's as if she did it with a dictionary and thesaurus and no working knowledge of spoken English. Also lots of typos in the Kindle edition.
Published 15 months ago by David
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great translation, lovely stories, awesome edition,
This review is from: Fathers and Children (Second Edition) (Norton Critical Editions) (Paperback)
I loved this book. I think the translation feels fluid, modern, and on point with the historical context. The Norton critical edition provides a number of letters and essays on this, perfect for a scholar. Beautiful novel, interesting, progressive characters that depict a shift in Russian thought in the volatile 1840s.
4 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Terrible Translation,
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This review is from: Fathers and Children (AKA Fathers and Sons) (Kindle Edition)
Turgenev is wonderful. This translation is awful. The translator does not / can not speak English. It's as if she did it with a dictionary and thesaurus and no working knowledge of spoken English. Also lots of typos in the Kindle edition.
6 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Who is translating?,
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This review is from: Fathers and Children (Kindle Edition)
The various translations of Fathers & Children (aka Fathers & Sons) by Turgenev are listed as available on Kindle. However, as Edith Grossman points out, translation does matter. I wanted the Pursglove translation but almost purchased the Kindle-available Caldwell translation just 'cause it's listed in all translations...a bit misleading...
5 of 58 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
A good book.,
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This review is from: Fathers & Children (Paperback)
This book is a good book, and I recommend it to anybody who wants to read a book. I'm an extremely bad reader - and so may not have picked up on all the nuances, but at the end I was touched by that fuzzy feeling of truth one gets with good art. Is the end a little like D. Thomas' poem "Mourning" something or other - you know the one! - or was it my imagination.
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Fathers and Children (Everyman's Library) by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (Hardcover - October 15, 1991)
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