About James E. Falen
Born 1935. James E. Falen is an American translator.
James E. Falen is a professor emeritus of Russian at the University of Tennessee. He published a translation of Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin in 1990 which was also influenced by Nabokov's translation, but preserved the Onegin stanzas . This translation is considered to be the most faithful one to Pushkin's spirit according to Russian critics and translators.
His other books include: Isaac Babel, Russian master of the short story (1974), a translation of two poetry anthologies by Boris Pasternak (1890-1960).
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American translator
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James E. Falen was born in 1935.
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