The Translator in the Text - On Reading Russian Literature in English

What does it mean to read one nation's literature in another language? The considerable popularity of Russian literature in the English-speaking world rests almost entirely upon translations. In The Translator and the Text, Rachel May analyzes Russian literature in English translation, seeing it less as a substitute for the original works than as a subset of English literature, with its own cultural, stylistic, and narrative traditions.

"May's highly original approach creates a fruitful link between translation studies and cultural studies; it begs to be applied to literatures other than Russian." --Michael Henry Heim