Onus Probandi: On the Russian Lolita

Abstract

I imagined that in some distant future someone might produce a Russian version of Lolita. I trained my inner telescope upon that particular point in the distant future and saw that every paragraph, pockmarked as it is with pitfalls, could lend itself to hideous mistranslation. In the hands of a harmful drudge, the Russian version of Lolita would be entirely degraded and botched by vulgar paraphrases or blunders. So I decided to translate it myself.'

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