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Title: Other Translations?
Review: I have to believe there is a better translation out there. I've only seen one other though, so I suppose I can merely HOPE there is another. The Maguire-Malmstad version seems hopelessly clunky on the sentence level. I can imagine Bely's novel reads like this in Russian as well, but again, I HOPE it does not!I can't say this story has quite as much "human" interest as Ulysses, a book that can easily be appreciated apart from its experimental nature. Bely's book is more obscure in those terms. Sort of a cross, perhaps, between Ulysses and Musil's Man Without Qualities (probably a lot more like the latter in the way the characters are presented). Certainly only for people who like "experimental" writing.
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