Fragments of a blog
Fragments of a blog
Gary Saul Morson has a wonderful article in The Weekly Standard: …Russian “populism” (narodnichestvo, from narod, the people) began in the 1870s… The importance of Russian populism lies less in its programs than in its ethos, a guilty idealism… Jolting…
Gary Saul Morson’s piece on Crime and Punishment at 150 at The New Criterion is not available for free except for this snippet at the beginning: Four years earlier [1861], the “tsar-liberator” Alexander II (reigned 1855–1881) had at last abolished serfdom, a…
Reading this translation thread at LanguageHat‘s, I asked myself: Why is that theories of translations have multiplied in the past, say, four decades, but good translations (of Russian authors into English and vice versa) have not? Also found via comments…