Robert Chandler

Book Column: Spotlighting Masterful Literary Translations

January 20, 2025
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One of translation’s greatest powers — its ability to take a text out of one historical period, literary tradition, language, and set of conventions and transplant it into another — is a delicate procedure.

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World Books: Digging “The Foundation Pit”

May 27, 2009
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By Bill Marx In the latest World Books podcast I talk to Robert Chandler, who along with his wife Elizabeth and Olga Meerson has translated Andrey Platonov’s novel “The Foundation Pit” for New York Review Books.

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