As I understand these terms, a reference is where a writer explicitly mentions another writer's work in his work. An allusion is where a writer puts something...
I find myself more and more fascinated with what AIS has done with Zoya. The first impression is to dismiss her as Oleg's fleshly love interest, lower than...
Forgive the off-topic post, but a final plea: If anyone here has access to Novyi TV from Ukraine, I would love to have a copy of this broadcast! I'd be happy...
... seems worth exploring. ... One place where I have seen the parallels between Hitler and Stalin explored is a book by Alan Bullock, _Hitler and Stalin,...
Steve, that is really interesting history. I knew nothing about the episodes contained in your posting. Thank you for putting this online. I sort of feel like...
Warning "Spoiler" for "Matronya's Home" follows. "Matronya's Home/House" has long been a favorite of mine. The final part, in English, from 1971 "A.S. Stories...
jim morriis
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Jul 10, 2008 5:33 pm
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Dear Jim, The translation you prefer seems to be by Michael Glenny. I say "seems to be" because the last line in my edition of Solzhenitsyn's "Stories and...
Alexis Klimoff
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Jul 10, 2008 8:25 pm
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Dear Alexis, Many, many thanks. jim ... From: Alexis Klimoff To: solzhenitsyn-l@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2008 4:25 PM Subject: Re:...
jim morriis
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Jul 10, 2008 8:36 pm
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Just to strengthen Alexis's excellent analysis, the sheer euphony of Willetts's ending in English is far superior to Glenny's (Glenny, a lovely man, was always...
Michael Scammell
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Jul 10, 2008 8:56 pm
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A slight tangent from comparing the Willetts and Glenny translations of "Matryona".... Translation is a perilous art, and I've got great respect for those who...
Dear Steve, the Parker translation is not without merit, but once again Willetts is far more successful in rendering Solzhenitsyn's "One Day in the Life of...
Alexis Klimoff
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Jul 13, 2008 6:05 am
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Have you all seen this? "NEW YORK (AP) — An uncut edition of Aleksander Solzhenitsyn's "The First Circle," a highly praised and controversial novel published...
This is the same edition that Ed Ericson and I excerpted in The Solzhenitsyn Reader (a total of nine of the 96 chapters of the original łuncut˛ version of FC...
Mahoney, Daniel (Poli...
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Jul 23, 2008 4:58 pm
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Yes, it's good news all right. It would be even better if the abominable translation of the first two volumes of /The Gulag Archipelago /could be done away...
Michael Scammell
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Jul 23, 2008 9:25 pm
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Please help me one more time with the complexity of translation. What I read at the time, and talk about below was -- Vol. one and two -- the Whitney...
jim morriis
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Jul 23, 2008 10:58 pm
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Dear Jim, While I emphatically share Michael Scammell's chagrin at the many unfortunate shortcomings of Thomas Whitney's rendition of "Gulag Archipelago"...
Alexis Klimoff
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Jul 24, 2008 2:59 am
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Dear Professor Klimoff, Once again, I am in your debt. Many many thanks, and best to you and yours. jim ... From: Alexis Klimoff To:...
jim morriis
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Jul 24, 2008 11:49 am
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Very well put, Alex, and your diplomatic language is admirable. I agree with you about the passage in question - the problems lie elsewhere, mainly in the...
Michael Scammell
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Jul 24, 2008 1:45 pm
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A number of online sources are reporting AIS's today, from either a stroke or heart failure. Goodbye Aleksandr Isayevitch. You were indeed a tiny...
It is indeed a sad loss of such a great soul and wise voice. I was sorry to hear the news, but am grateful for the legacy he leaves. Farewell Aleksandr...
Solzhenitsyn, Literary Giant Who Defied Soviets, Dies at 89 http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/04/books/04solzhenitsyn.html?hp My hero has finally succumbed....
What a giant. What a true Russian patriot, yet also a true citizen of the world, who influenced thousands outside his homeland. What a defender of human...
Farewell, Aleksandr Isayevich... One of the great eye-witnesses to history has passed away - one who not only lived through some of the most extremely evil...
Pity that so few world citizens at the time, and more so today; know the role of the Italian Communist Party in protecting him. As he had close friends amongst...
AIS to be buried on Wednesday in the Donskoi Monastery. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/russian/russia/newsid_7540000/7540154.stm [Non-text portions of this...
My 87-year-old mother, still very sharp and curious about the world, has our copies of the Gulag Archipelago in Russian. She lives next to Washington, DC,...
