14 July 2013
By John Freedman
From The Moscow TImes
John Freedman
Franklin D. Reeve's translations of Russian drama were published in various collections in the 1960s.
This week I am thinking about translation. More specifically I am thinking about those translators who were there for me — and several generations of people like me — when I became interested in Russian literature last century.
The topic arose in my mind because I learned a few days ago that Franklin D. Reeve had died at the age of 84. He died June 28, but the news didn't spread until an obituary appeared in the New York Times on July 7.
Read more: http://www.themoscowtimes.com//article/russian-literature-not-lost-in-translation/483098.html#ixzz2Z2Gru2Gd
The Moscow Times
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