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May 6, 2005
'The Talking Parcel' Learns to Speak Russian
Mark Hooker reviews Natalia L. Rakhmanova's ("the first - and the best - Russian translator of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit") adaptations in her translation of Gerard Durrell's story for children, The Talking Parcel.
The first real challenge for the Russian translator was the Parrot's introduction, in which he chides the children for calling him "a parrot." "I'm not a parrot, I'm THE parrot." (p. 11)
Posted by michele at May 6, 2005 12:44 PM