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Originally Posted by CharlieBird
My curiosity overcame my frugality upon discovering a Pevear/Volokhonsky translation on Amazon.
P/V:
" All her life, all her desires and hopes were concentrated on this one man, still incomprehensible to her, with whom she was united by some feeling still more incomprehensible than the man himself, now drawing her to him, now repulsing her, and all the while she went on living in the circumstances of her former life. Living her old life, she was horrified at herself, at her total, insuperable indifference to her entire past:..."
Garnett:
"All her life, all her desires and hopes were concentrated on this one man, still uncomprehended by her, to whom she was bound by a feeling of alternate attraction and repulsion, even less comprehended than the man himself, and all the while she was going on living in the outward conditions of her old life. Living the old life, she was horrified at herself, at her utter insurmountable callousness to all her own past,..."
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Well, this explains a lot..
Thanks a lot for the comparison, CharlieBird. Much appreciated.
Now I wish I'd overcome my frugality as well. Maybe in another life.