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Joanne Manees jmanees at law.miami.edu
Tue Apr 9 13:41:50 CDT 2002


	It certainly looks cool!

> Serge Nemalevich wrote:
> 
> Hello
> 
> A month ago we (my friends and me) had opened www.pynchon.ru
> The problem is that i have (almost) no idea what to do with it.
> 
> The only plan i have is to organize some kind of forum for russians to
> discuss a) difficulties in translation b) everything that is under
> discussion on pynchon list but in russian.
> 
> Errr... another idea is to put there some russian articles connected
> with TRP. Actually there are at least 2 russian-speaking specialsits
> (and "promoters") in Pynchon: Sergey Kuznetsov and Alexey Lalo. Maybe
> someone else whom i don't know.
> 
> I don't know of any "directed", "mainstream" community of
> russian-speaking people interested in Thomas Pynchon. The main reasons
> are:
> 
>  There are 2 of Pynchon novels translated into russian:
>  - V
>  - Crying...
> and some short stories.
> 
> Nobody knows if it is possible to translate Pynchon into russian
> adeqvately. Existing translations usualy are said to be awful.
> 
> And so on.
> 
> So, i'm not afraid of too many russian visitors.
> 
> There are 10 Mb aviable and there's a person ready to support it.
> 
>   Serge
> 
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