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Title: Translation is disappointing
Review: I'm Russian myself, and I wanted to find a good translation so that my husband could read the stories I was telling him about for himself. Boy, was it disappointing. I guess I thought if the translator had a Russian name, she'd know what she was talking about. I actually had to comment on every passage, so it would make sense to an English-speaking reader while it still preserved the essence of the story. I could probably do it better myself.As far as Gogol is concerned - these Ukrainian stories stories are magical. Great reading on a December night, when the snow is falling, and you're curled up with a cup of hot tea on a couch, while the rest of the house is dark...
