Best translation of popular Russian works? Pic related

>>8686823
How good is this book? I know it's a classic beginner point, but I've never read it

>>8686836
It's great, very funny. A bit more episodic than you might expect. The historical chapters are very melancholy.

>>8686836
It's good and a lit favorite for a reason. Recommend you read it with Faust at some point

>>8687043

translation you read? was kind of the point of the thread because I have heard there are translations that are horrid and should be avoided...

>>8687810
I read Burgin & O'connor's translation, I liked it. The Mirra Ginsburg one is partially censored/incomplete so I'd avoid it.

>>8686823
Definitely not an English one.
t. glorious ex-soviet country the language of which has been influenced by Russian just enough that no meaning is lost in translation and it just werks, unlike English which always loses the meaning of a joke or fucks up an idiom. and it's not even a slavic language

Ukrainian ones are good

>>8687834
What is even the point of ukrainian translations? Literally everyone who speak ukrainian speak russian also.

>>8687818
Baltic state?

>>8689074
Yeah.

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>>8686823
>translation