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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I loved Crime and Punishment. I would just find a guide online because it can get confusing at first with how the characters are referred to. There’s a lot of “nickname” vs. formal name usage that makes sense in Russian but wouldn’t be intuitive to an English speaker - think of like a character called Elizabeth who’s called Betty by her parents or whatever, we know that as a nickname but a non-English speaker maybe wouldn’t and would get confused like who’s this Betty all of a sudden. [/quote] I read an edition of Brothers Karamazov (think it is the Pevear-Volokhonsky translation) that includes a helpful primer at the beginning on Russian diminutives, and how they really aren’t translatable into English. Good thing I read the note first. Otherwise I wouldn’t have realized that Alyosha, Lyokha, Lyosha, and Alexei are the same person! 😝[/quote]
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