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“... the book’s slothful hero. Other translations describe his favourite posture as lying down, but Marian Schwartz boldly goes for ‘recumbence’, with its suggestion of ornate Latin repose: For Ilya Ilich, recumbence was neither a necessity, as it would be for an ill or sleepy man, nor an occasional occurrence, as for someone who was weary, nor a ...”

“... of happiness. And where I once nearly suffocated from love, I can stop and shut the book.’ Marian Schwartz, Shishkin’s translator, has done a good job of turning his Russian into smooth, strong American English. It is understandable that she baulked at the biggest single challenge he presented, to find an alternative to the English word ...”

“... alcoholic cleaner and a man who says ‘bitch’ a lot, these distinctions have disappeared in Marian Schwartz’s translation, flattened into sarcasm, something exacerbated by the omniscient narrator’s frequent sardonic interjections (these include, bizarrely, lines from Good Will Hunting). This uniform tone, combined with the convoluted ...”