Re:Life Got You Down? Time to Read The Master and Margarita
by thelastidiot on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @05:16AM
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I read that one and I was happy with it:
The Master and Margarita Paperback – March 19, 1996 by Mikhail Bulgakov (Author), Diana Burgin (Translator), Katherine Tiernan O'Connor (Translator)
Of course, Amazon will provide reviews for all translations in one big bucket so it's hard to know which one gets the best review.
You can go to sub reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/1lngmm/which_the_mas...
Re:Life Got You Down? Time to Read The Master and Margarita
by 80801 on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @05:25AM
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Richard Pevear & Larissa Volokhonsky. Since they get so much praise, anything russian I have read was translated by them.
Re:Life Got You Down? Time to Read The Master and Margarita
by FabHK on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @05:29AM
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And they did the Penguin 50 yr anniversary edition [1]. It has some useful notes at the end, too.
I found the notes in the Annotated Lolita [2] very helpful, unfortunately I haven't really found an annotated version of M&M (beyond what's in [1]).
[1] https://www.amazon.com/dp/0143108271
[2] https://www.amazon.com/Annotated-Lolita-Revised-Updated/dp/0...
Re:Life Got You Down? Time to Read The Master and Margarita
by billfruit on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @12:16PM
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They have many critics also who refuse to buy into the Pevear-Volokhknsky hype, even considering their translations as 'disastrous':
https://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2013/01/the-...
I've only ventured slightly into Russian litarature (English translations thereof) with "The death of Ivan Ilych" and "the dream of a rediculous man". I consider the former to be one of the best books I have read this year, and would like to give TMaM a try but always have trouble deciding on a translation.