“Retranslating Literary Classics: A Panel of Cervantes, Montaigne, and Dostoevsky,” this spring’s Literature Humanities Course-wide event, was held in Miller Theatre and moderated by Susan Bernofsky, director of literary translation at Columbia.
March 7, 2014

“Retranslating Literary Classics: A Panel of Cervantes, Montaigne, and Dostoevsky,” this spring’s Literature Humanities Course-wide event, was held in Miller Theatre and moderated by Susan Bernofsky, director of literary translation at Columbia. The panel was comprised of Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, who translated the version of Crime and Punishment that was taught in Lit Hum this spring; Edith Grossman, whose translation of Cervantes’s Don Quixote is used in Lit Hum; and Wyatt Mason, who spoke about translating Montaigne’s Essays.

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