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Translating things is a good way to get at the heart of why they’re good, or why they may not be so great after all. It’s also, from the perspective of one learning languages, an excellent way of improving one’s vocabulary. Here are a few of my own translations. I cannot vouch for their quality.

From the Russian:

Crossing the Zbruch by Isaac Babel

I Just Couldn’t Help Myself by Leo Tolstoy

A Righteous Man by Nikolai Leskov

Misery by Anton Chekhov

Evgeniy Baratinsky – Four Poems

Evgeniy Baratinsky – “My talent’s poor, my voice has little weight…”

Dmitry Ogarev – The Wanderer (poem)

From the German:

Before the Law by Franz Kafka

Theodor Storm – Poems

A few of Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s Poems

Georg Trakl – Poems

Anton Chekhov Austrian Literature British Literature Christianity Cormac McCarthy Effi Briest Faith fascism Franz Kafka Friedrich Nietzsche Fyodor Dostoevsky German Literature German Poetry Gilead Hadji Murat Heart of Darkness Henry James Isaac Babel John Williams Jon Fosse Joseph Conrad Kazuo Ishiguro Leo Tolstoy Marilynne Robinson Modernism Nikolai Gogol Norwegian Literature Novellas Poetry Postmodern Literature Richard Holmes Romanticism Russian Literature Sally Rooney Short Stories Socialism Soviet Literature Theodor Adorno Theodor Fontane Theodor Storm Thomas Mann Vergangenheitsbewältigung Vladimir Nabokov Walter Benjamin War and Peace

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