Book review
Muireann Maguire & Cathy McAteer, eds.. Translating Russian Literature in the Global Context
Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2024. 712 pp.

Reviewed by Brian James Baer
Kent State University
Publication history

Date received: 23 April 2025

Date accepted: 12 June 2025

Published online: 28 July 2025

Table of contents

This 700-page edited volume is a milestone in the field of reception studies. While there are several excellent volumes that trace the global reception of a single author, such as those edited by Evangelista (2015) and Batchelor and Harding (2017), this volume is unprecedented in its scale and scope: tracing an entire literary tradition across the world. Building on two recent works by Platt (2019) and Byford, Doak, and Hutchings (2020) that seek to transnationalize Russian literature and culture, this volume focuses more specifically on the role of translation, offering situated readings and rewritings of Russian literature across five continents: Europe, Africa and the Middle East, Asia, and North and South America. Each of these sections is prefaced by an informative overview, authored by the editors.

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