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Dear List,
Margarida Vale de Gato, whom I also know as a fellow Poe scholar (a
question, by the way: how many critics focus on both Poe and Nabokov?),
asked about how Nabokov translated his Gallicisms in the Russian* Lolita*.
The French phrases appear as in the English original, that is, in the Roman
alphabet (not Cyrillic). He translates such phrases into Russian (in
Cyrillic) in a few pages at the end of the volume, after the afterword (pp.
300-304). In terms of translating *Lolita*, it would also be useful to
consult Nabokov's letters with his publishers about the French phrases in
his *Selected Letters.*
It might also be useful to consult *An English-Russian Dictionary of
Nabokov's* Lolita, by A. Nakhimovsky and S. Paperno (Ann Arbor, MI: Ardis,
1982).
Yours,
SES
Susan Elizabeth Sweeney
Co-Editor, NABOKV-L
> Hello
> I am currently translating Lolita into Portuguese and I have three queries
> about how Nabokov translated Lolita into Russian:
>
> - did he keep the Gallicisms? (if so, were they transcribed in Russian
> alphabet or did he use standard French)
>
> - did he maintain / introduce anglicisms and how?
>
> - apparently he introduced a sort of dictionary after an afterword. What
> did this dictionary contain?
>
> Thanks to anyone who may help.
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Margarida Vale de Gato, whom I also know as a fellow Poe scholar (a
question, by the way: how many critics focus on both Poe and Nabokov?),
asked about how Nabokov translated his Gallicisms in the Russian* Lolita*.
The French phrases appear as in the English original, that is, in the Roman
alphabet (not Cyrillic). He translates such phrases into Russian (in
Cyrillic) in a few pages at the end of the volume, after the afterword (pp.
300-304). In terms of translating *Lolita*, it would also be useful to
consult Nabokov's letters with his publishers about the French phrases in
his *Selected Letters.*
It might also be useful to consult *An English-Russian Dictionary of
Nabokov's* Lolita, by A. Nakhimovsky and S. Paperno (Ann Arbor, MI: Ardis,
1982).
Yours,
SES
Susan Elizabeth Sweeney
Co-Editor, NABOKV-L
> Hello
> I am currently translating Lolita into Portuguese and I have three queries
> about how Nabokov translated Lolita into Russian:
>
> - did he keep the Gallicisms? (if so, were they transcribed in Russian
> alphabet or did he use standard French)
>
> - did he maintain / introduce anglicisms and how?
>
> - apparently he introduced a sort of dictionary after an afterword. What
> did this dictionary contain?
>
> Thanks to anyone who may help.
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