Notes of a repeat offender translator
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Grigory Kruzhkov is a poet and translator, literary critic and essayist, laureate of prestigious literary awards, a professor at RGGU, and an honorary doctor of letters from Dublin University.
Every good translator is a researcher, in love with the foreign word. Each of us has favorite poets, but to embark on 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 achieve this. Grigory Kruzhkov succeeded. An insatiable thirst for discoveries took him far, to the islands where his favorite poets - John Keats and Lewis Carroll, Robert Frost and William Yeats, John Donne and Emily Dickinson - ruled and made sacrifices to Apollo. Everything seen and experienced in this literary journey demanded to be captured. As a result, an exciting story about the life of a translator, its comedies and dramas, about the secrets of the craft, favorite poets, and translators was born.
The mini-anthology of the author's selected translations, printed alongside the originals and included in the appendix, gives the inquisitive reader an opportunity to get closer to the amazing world on the border of 'one's own and the other's' and to independently reflect on the metamorphoses of translation.
The book is illustrated with portraits and fragments of manuscript texts of the translated poets, drawings from the first book editions, as well as reproductions of artworks that restore the cultural context of the time.
Author:
Author:Kruzhkov Grigoriy Mikhaylovich
Cover:
Cover:hardcover
Category:
- Category:Biographies & Memoirs
- Category:Languages
Dimensions:
Dimensions:22x15.5x4 cm
Series:
Series:Word to the Translator
ISBN:
ISBN:978-5-907488-38-0
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