ETA mostly to self

[pantryslut]

I think I also love Petersburg because of how it plays off one of my other favorite novels of all time, Turgenev's Fathers and Sons. The main characters are a very high Tsarist official and his aspiring-to-be-a-terrorist son.

Comments

[badgerbag]

Part of what I'm enjoying is the very enmeshed relationship of the translators with the text and all its depths and background. With a "difficult" text that relationship and engagement is fractally intense!

[pantryslut]

The footnotes may be the best part of the book. 'Intense' is exactly the right word.