there's only one zone
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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