Michael Best
Red Cavalry and Other Stories
My rating is for the edition and not the stories. I have the Penguin version and the translation is archaic and, at times, barely comprehensible. My ebook version also appears to be an OCR scan which is fully of typical OCR typo errors, it also lacks coding to link to the very many footnotes.
The Pushkin edition is a modern translation and works wonderfully for me. It is a shame the Pushkin edition misses out on the other short stories included in the Penguin edition, as these add a lot of flesh on the bones of Babel's own character and personality.
My rating is for the edition and not the stories. I have the Penguin version and the translation is archaic and, at times, barely comprehensible. My ebook version also appears to be an OCR scan which is fully of typical OCR typo errors, it also lacks coding to link to the very many footnotes.
The Pushkin edition is a modern translation and works wonderfully for me. It is a shame the Pushkin edition misses out on the other short stories included in the Penguin edition, as these add a lot of flesh on the bones of Babel's own character and personality.