Best edition of Chekhov?

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I liked David Margarshack's The Lady with the Lapdog the best so far. Constance Garrett has translated the most of them, but her writing is clumpy and stilted. Any advice?

kensanway, Sunday, 13 March 2005 03:40 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...
There is a Pevear and Volokhonsky translation.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0553381008/002-5037399-9417610?v=glance&n=283155
And I think they've done other Chekhov.

They seem to be dominating Russian literature--DFW didn't all together like their translation of Dostoevsky (In the newish Lobster book), right, but I think they do a bang-up job.

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http://philosophypage.blogspot.com/

B Money (B Mingus), Thursday, 29 June 2006 17:18 (nineteen years ago)


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