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“... are enough to whet one’s appetite, so that we can turn with gratitude to Angel Classics and Ignat Avsey for providing a new version, with a useful introduction and notes. Is it too cynical to say that any reasonably competent translator can give us a good version of Anna Karenina or Crime and Punishment: that the original has enough power to ...”

“... Julius Katzer (1980), Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky (1990), David McDuff (1993), Ignat Avsey (1994) and, most recently, Michael Katz. Apparently there are at least eleven translations into German, nine into French, five into Spanish, and who knows what else.Translators always tell us where they stand on the matter of fidelity ...”