TRP Translation Blunders

[Ya Sam]

I am sure that translating TRP is a heavy task, and even the best of 
translators cannot avoid some mistakes regarding the rendition of Pynchon's 
lexical exploits. However, there are real gems. I've just read an 
interesting article about the blunders in two Russian translations of V, one 
of which, by the away is available to me. The article is there 
http://www.boidonochi.spb.ru/pynchon/pynchoniada/saved/8r.html, but it's in 
Russian of course.
I will give you just one example of the translators' blunder. At the end of 
the first chapter of V Profane and Angel run across the street holding the 
deadly drunk Geronimo "like a battering ram". And what do you think, in one 
translation it came out as "like a dead male sheep", and in the other one -- 
"like a violent lamb". If you've come across any suchlike blunder in any 
translation of Pynchon, could you give some examples?

Y.

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