This is slav bashing is a time honored tradition going back to the 20′s with the Cambridge/Kremlin/Duranty/Hollywood crowd.

http://cybercossack.com/?p=526#comments

Borat, the fictional TV reporter from Kazakhstan, may have gotten under the skin of Kazakh officials but on Thursday he couldn’t get past the gates of the White House.Secret Service agents turned away British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen, in character as the boorish, anti-Semitic journalist, when he tried to invite “Premier George Walter Bush” to a screening of his upcoming movie, “Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan.” Also invited to the screening: O.J. Simpson, “Mel Gibsons” and other “American dignitaries.” Link

I must add that you omitted that the man Borat was talking to amended his answer (after being asked why slavery was abolished) with “…which is a good thing, for them” to which Borat immediately delivers his uproarious repartee: “but not so much for you.”

Sheer f*cking brillance. I can’t wait for the film.

Nope there isn’t.

Have you read any of the Pevear-Volokhonsky translations?

Nope again. I’m only reporting the word on the street, but the article did praise them to the skies. Though I begin to wonder if the publisher had anything to do with what, on sober reflection, looks like a puff piece.

the new standard is the Pevear and Volokhonsky tag-team.

Have you read any of the Pevear-Volokhonsky translations?

I tried the Brothers K translation by the duo(never finished it, unfortunately), and it read pretty much like the one Mir publishers put out. So maybe the Russians had it right all along . Or maybe not, I don’t know much about translation.

i dont know why new yorker shredded garnett – but her interpretation (a sense that is distinct from “translation”) appealed to me. i would be interested in the new yorker article though. do let us know if there’s a link out there.