Michael Frayn, discussing his translation of Chekhov in the Bulletin of the Institute of Translation and Interpreting (Jan-Feb. 2003), wrote: “I really do believe the characters have to express themselves in absolute English otherwise it’s not really a translation. The point is that the original doesn’t sound quaint and odd and foreign to Russians, so it shouldn’t sound quaint and odd to English people.“

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