In a Spa Town
James Wood: ‘A Hero of Our Time’, 11 February 2010
A Hero of Our Time
by Mikhail Lermontov, translated by Natasha Randall.
Penguin, 174 pp., £8.99, August 2009,978 0 14 310563 3 Show More
by Mikhail Lermontov, translated by Natasha Randall.
Penguin, 174 pp., £8.99, August 2009,
“... in a person … To complete the portrait, I will tell you that he had a slightly upturned nose. Natasha Randall’s English, in her new translation, has exactly the right degree of loose velocity – this sounds like someone taking notes, patching it together as he goes along and unable to make up his mind. (Nabokov’s version, the best-known older ... ”