Crime and Punishment

Crime and Punishment


Dear Students,

I am being urged to submit my Преступление и наказание textbook, which some of you have learned to love and to hate — odi et amo, said Horace — to Slavica. I think that it is a unique vehicle for learning. (Unique indeed, you may say, sarcastically.)

Well, should I undertake this enterprise I would need to have the text treated with minute corrigenda et addenda, and to have the whole thing typed into Word in exactly the same format I have it now, in a rather small font, pages of somewhat varying length, and glosses on the page in double columns, with brief grammatical notes at the very bottom across the page. Also appendices and general vocabulary.

I’d have to have a Russian-reading typist with sensitivity and intelligence, and pay accordingly. What better wellspring than 204? What would be a fair pay per page? Five dollars a page and mininum $1000 for the whole job? Or double that, or something in between? Is this realistic?

If someone in the class wants to do it, I’d have the advantage in my typist of real familiarity with the work. It would really save my proofreading.

I don’t have any deadline in mind. I think the work should be spaced out over several months, so that the typist’s brain doesn’t become dulled by too much at once. You could start very soon, leave the city for the summer, and finish later (how later? your academic work might distract you from the job).

Do y’all have any thoughts about this?

Thanks,
gmc