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On the first English translation of Sasha Sokolov’s novel “Between Dog and Wolf”
- Authors: Zakharyan A.A.1
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Affiliations:
- Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University)
- Issue: Vol 24, No 4 (2019)
- Pages: 795-799
- Section: REVEWS
- URL: https://journals.rudn.ru/literary-criticism/article/view/23080
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.22363/2312-9220-2019-24-4-795-799
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The article is devoted to the analysis of the main problems and challenges (as well as their solutions) of the fi rst English translation of the novel “Between Dog and Wolf” written by Sasha Sokolov in 1980. For a few decades this novel had no English translation, until the work of Alexander Boguslawski, Sokolov’s friend and translator. In this article we analyze and summarize the diffi culties of this text for translation and the ways Boguslawski solved them, based on his own experience that he shared in the fi rst English edition of the novel: “Between Dog and Wolf”. Columbia University Press, 2016. 296 p. (Russian Library).
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Armen A. Zakharyan
Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University)
Author for correspondence.
Email: zajaryan@gmail.com
literary critic, journalist and author of the literary channel “Armen & Fedor”; applicant of the Department of Mass Communications
10 Miklukho-Maklaya St., bldg. 2, Moscow, 117198, Russian FederationReferences
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