Notes of a recidivist translator
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Notes of a recidivist translator
29.99 €
Grigory Kruzhkov is a poet and translator, literary critic and essayist, winner of prestigious literary prizes, professor at RSUHU and honorary Doctor of Letters at the University of Dublin.
Every good translator is a researcher in love with other people's words. Each of us has our favorite poets, but to make a journey through five centuries of foreign poetry, to overcome the formidable reefs of untranslatability and not to get stuck in the heavy ice and hummocks of dictionaries - not everyone can do it. Grigory Kruzhkov has succeeded. His irrepressible thirst for discovery took him far away, to the islands where his favorite poets ruled and sacrificed to Apollo: John Keats and Lewis Carroll, Robert Frost and William Yates, John Donne and Emily Dickinson. Everything seen and experienced on this literary journey needed to be captured. The result is a fascinating account of the translation life, its comedies and dramas, the mysteries of the craft, and favorite poets and translators. A mini-anthology of selected translations of the author, printed in parallel with the originals, gives the inquisitive reader an opportunity to get acquainted with the wonderful world on the border of "one's own and another's" and to reflect on the metamorphoses of translation. The book is illustrated with portraits and fragments of handwritten texts of the translated poets, drawings from the first book editions, and reproductions of works of art that restore the cultural context of the time.
Every good translator is a researcher in love with other people's words. Each of us has our favorite poets, but to make a journey through five centuries of foreign poetry, to overcome the formidable reefs of untranslatability and not to get stuck in the heavy ice and hummocks of dictionaries - not everyone can do it. Grigory Kruzhkov has succeeded. His irrepressible thirst for discovery took him far away, to the islands where his favorite poets ruled and sacrificed to Apollo: John Keats and Lewis Carroll, Robert Frost and William Yates, John Donne and Emily Dickinson. Everything seen and experienced on this literary journey needed to be captured. The result is a fascinating account of the translation life, its comedies and dramas, the mysteries of the craft, and favorite poets and translators. A mini-anthology of selected translations of the author, printed in parallel with the originals, gives the inquisitive reader an opportunity to get acquainted with the wonderful world on the border of "one's own and another's" and to reflect on the metamorphoses of translation. The book is illustrated with portraits and fragments of handwritten texts of the translated poets, drawings from the first book editions, and reproductions of works of art that restore the cultural context of the time.
See also:
- All books by the publisher
- All books by the author
- All books in the series A word to the translator