The 14-Volume Collected Works of Father Georges Florovsky: Critical Comments
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https://doi.org/10.31802/2658-7491-2020-1-3-115-133Keywords:
Archpriest Georges Florovsky, Florovsky in translation, editing issues, «Collected Works» as a genre, Fathers of the Church, ecumenism, E. Kholmogorov, A. Kyrlezhev, I. I. EvlampievAbstract
The article pursues two mutually connected goals. In Рart One, it presents a critical review of the multivolume English-language Collected Works of the Orthodox theologian Georges Florovsky (1893–1979), while Part Two is an examination of the extent to which this edition influenced the formation of Russian-language compilations of Florovsky’s works. The Collected Works was launched in the USA in 1972, but in the mid-1980s the publication of the series was shifted to the principality of Liechtenstein, ending there in 1989 with the appearance of the 14th volume. Apart from holding a large number of articles originally written in English, a very substantial proportion of the material contained in the Collected Works consists of translations from Russian, including an English version of the well-known book Puti russkogo bogosloviia [The Ways of Russian Theology]. The Collected Works demonstrate a seriously uneven quality in terms of editorial policy. After the generally satisfactory editions of the first four volumes (despite a significant flaw in Volume 3) and the fine translation of Puti in the following two volumes, one notes a decline in textual accuracy, due to both the inadequacy of the translations offered and a radical departure from the accepted norms of editing the works of a major author. These negative tendencies attain their strongest expression in the last four volumes, making it virtually impossible to depend on the materials presented there. Part Two of the article is focused on four Russian compilations published in the late 1990s and early 2000s. The materials included in these single-volume collections indicate very clearly that the English-language Collected Works served as a major source for the Russian compilers. A detailed look at this issue reveals that the Russian compilations drew only on the textually reliable initial four volumes of the Collected Works.
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