The author of the novel “Benefactors” complained about the cut out 20 pages of text in the Russian translation
From the first edition of the novel “Benefactors” by Jonathan Littell, which was published in Russian in 2011 by Ad Marginem, about 600 fragments or about 20 pages of text were removed during translation and editing. The writer himself spoke about this in an interview with Gorky. “Of course, I know Russian, but I don’t read very fluently, so I looked through a few pages, looked at the beginning, but, of course, I didn’t read the translation.