Title Literary translation in Russia : a cultural history / Maurice Friedberg

Published University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997

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Description 1 online resource (224 pages) Series Book collections on Project MUSE Contents Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Historical Background -- 2 Theoretical Controversies -- 3 Plying the Translator's Trade -- 4 Translators and the Literary Process -- Index Summary In this rich historical study, Maurice Friedberg recounts the impact of translation on the Russian literary process. In tracing the explosion of literary translation in nineteenth-century Russia, Friedberg determines that it introduced new issues of cultural, aesthetic, and political values. Beginning with Pushkin in the early nineteenth century, Friedberg traces the history of translation throughout the lives of Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and, more recently, Pasternak. His analysis includes two translators who became Russia's leading literary figures: Zhukovsky, whose renditions of German poetry became famous, and Vvedensky, who introduced Charles Dickens to Russia. In the twentieth century, Friedberg points to Pasternak's Faust to show how apolitical authors welcomed free translation, which offered them an alternative to the original writing from which they had been banned by Soviet authorities. By introducing Western literary works, Russian translators provided new models for Russian literature. Friedberg discusses the usual battles fought between partisans of literalism and of free translation, the influence of Stalinist Soviet government on literary translation, and the political implications of aesthetic clashes. He also considers the impetus of translated Western fiction, poetry, and drama as remaining links to Western civilization during the decades of Russia's isolation from the West. Friedberg argues that literary translation had a profound effect on Russia by helping to erode the Soviet Union's isolation, which ultimately came to an end with the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Print version record Subject Translating and interpreting -- Russia -- History Translating and interpreting -- Soviet Union -- History Literature, Modern -- Translations into Russian -- History and criticism FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Multi-Language Phrasebooks. LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Alphabets & Writing Systems. LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Grammar & Punctuation. LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- General. LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Readers. LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Spelling. LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Translating & Interpreting. Intellectual life Literature, Modern -- Translations into Russian Translating and interpreting Literatur Übersetzung Geschichte Russisch. Letterkunde. Vertalingen. Invloed. SUBJECT Russia -- Intellectual life. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh92004164 Soviet Union -- Intellectual life. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125824 Subject Russia Soviet Union Russisch. Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book LC no. 96006726 ISBN 9780271072654 0271072652 9780271072630 0271072636

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