experience that the author provides to readers of the original — the author's authentic voice and relationship to his characters (and readers) should come across in the same way in a translation. Also, the translated text should, ideally, read just as naturally as the original (and conversely, if an author doesn't read comfortably in the original, that should be reflected in the translation)." "After the effort of coming up with appropriate equivalents for the elements of style required to convey a modern author's voice and intonation, what I am eventually left with is a whole range of points that require special decisions — like cultural references that are entirely foreign and require explanation or sub-textual assumptions of shared experiences that don't extend from Moscow as far as London (not to mention New York). That's where the ultimate difficulties arise, in deciding which solution to adopt — ignore, modify, omit or substitute." External links Amazon list of works by Bromfield Analysis of Andrew Bromfield's "Night Watch" translation, by M. Desyatova (in Russian) Analysis of Andrew Bromfield's translations of Victor Pelevin by Irina and Jan Vanhellemont British translators Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Translators of Alexander Pushkin Translators of Leo Tolstoy Russian–English translators