MOSCOW — Russian and American academics, publishers and Russian government officials announced on Saturday that they would collaborate on an ambitious new series of Russian literature in translation to be published by Columbia University Press.

The idea, tentatively named the Russian Library, envisions dozens, and perhaps more than 100, new translations of Russian modern literature and classics, selected by the publisher with support from a committee of Russian and American academics.

Academics at the conference said that the collaboration presented a chance, at least informally, to build the relationship between the two countries, at a time of heightened tensions.

“Think about the good work that can be done by making available a wide variety of perspectives on Russia both from the past and the present,” said Stephanie Sandler, a professor in the Slavic Department at Harvard University and one of several American professors to travel to Moscow for the conference. More.

See: The New York Times

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