User talk:Detritus

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[edit] Dostoevsky and Garnett

It's true; however I could not substantiate it with a link. Garnett does tend to excise texts from Dostoevsky which she feels she could not understand. Maybe not liberally, and I have not found her doing so to other writers, but in Dostoevsky, certainly. She'll skip them and then go on to translate the rest.

I have this on very good source, and I reckon so long as there's a person who could read Russian and cross-examine this claim, it could be substantiated. Mandel 13:14, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

At Google groups there was this discussion, which might be helpful:

At any rate, it appears that Garnett, in addition to leaving out, in the name of Victorian propriety, a certain amount of the grim sleaze, which I'm afraid you can't really do with Dostoyevski, also left off a lot of political and current event stuff, which you also can't do with Dostoyevski, and really shouldn't do with any writer who cares enough to put it in.

Hopes this helps. Mandel 13:38, 8 January 2006 (UTC)