Vicissitudes of Translation

The hero of the film Viktor Golyshev is a translator He made such masterpieces of English literature as George Orwells 1984 and William Faulkners The Light in August Ken Keseys Over the Cuckoos Nest and Robert P Warrens All the Royal Army available to the Russian reader Everyone knows these novels in Russia But few people guess about the existence of Golyshev And he himself treats his profession calmly and matteroffactly As well as to yourself and to your life His philosophy is simple Tolstoyan the philosophy of small deeds And as a result the creation of a high culture In a word a simple translator from God