The material deals with the problem of retranslations of classical Russian prose into English viewed diachronically. The material is a short story by Ivan Bunin, the Nobel Prize winning émigré writer, and its four published English-language renditions made between 1949 and 2008. The retranslations are compared using four excerpts from the original text. A machine-produced version is also analyzed, along with the translation produced by the author. The conclusions offer some recommendations on how translators may improve the overall quality of the product of their efforts.
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