Russian Literature

[close] Excerpts and passages from stories, novels, poems, essays, and personal diaries of 19th century Russian writers and thinkers.

[close] I started this group on idea that I had as a reader. I was constantly finding books in foreign languages that I am/was unable to read. I thought wouldn't it be great if I could ban together translators, authors and publishers together to possibly make English versions available to non-multilingual people? and also, books from other countries like the UK and Australia not available to those in the USA? I'm looking for translators who are dual-lingual, in their native tongue and in English. French, Italian, German, Dutch, Spanish, all apply here. My idea is to take the original book, translate it, publish it to Smashwords or somewhere similar, see how it gains an audience to an American publisher may pick it up and publish it, possibly give it a better translation. I'm not sure how all this work, legally, but it's worth taking a shot at! If this takes off, I'd like to start a website, to collaborate with reviewers, other bloggers, authors, publishers and freelance translators. We would work on translations, take requests, communicate with authors and publishers and review said books. if we cannot translate, I'd like to at least spread the knowledge of the books in hopes that they'd picked up by a USA publisher.

[close] Discussions about 19th Century Fiction from any country. (Extended to 1904 to include those last Henry James novels.)

[close] Books are the gateways that allow the individual to travel outside of their immediate walls, find a new community, travel outside of that community and temporarily become someone else with the entire weight of empathy and gravity of existence. Books are advisers and adversaries. Books are guides both internal and external. Books exist to paint you as both the victim and the perpetrator, the starring role and the supporting cast member, the hero and the villain simultaneously. Let us be good stewards of their true value and carry them forward into times of both uncertainty and times of peace.