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Undine

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Undine
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The literary success of the German Romantic writer Friedrich de La Motte Fouquet, a significant figure in the Germany of the 1810s, was short-lived. The only work of this "excessively prolific", in the words of his contemporary Ludwig Tieck, writer that stood the test of time was the fairy tale story "Undine". But in Russia and with it Fouquet was not lucky: a brilliant verse translation of Vasily Andreyevich Zhukovsky completely overshadowed the figure of the German author. Since then, for a century and a half, the story of a mermaid in love has not even been attempted to be translated in Russia. It was Zhukovsky's "romantic tale" that in the early 20th century was published with color illustrations by the English artist Arthur Rackham, originally created for Fouquet's story. A prose translation of "Ondine" was made already in the XX century by the philologist-Germanist, researcher of literature of XVII-XVIII centuries Nina Alexandrovna Zhirmunskaya.

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