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Winner of the Anna Balakian Prize 2016 Is poetry lost in translation, or is it perhaps the other way around? Is it found? Gained? Won? What happens when a poet decides to give his favorite Russian poems a new life in English? Are the new texts shadows, twins or doppelgangers of their originals-or are they something completely different? Does the poet resurrect himself from the death of the author by reinterpreting his own work in another language, or does he turn into a monster: a bilingual, bicultural centaur? Alexandra Berlina, herself a poetry translator and a 2012 Barnstone Translation Prize laureate, addresses these questions in this new study of Joseph Brodsky, whose Nobel-prize-winning work has never yet been discussed from this perspective. ** Review “Written in a lively style and replete with astute observations and provocative insights, Berlina’s book is a joy to read. It is highly recommended.” -Adrian Wanner, The Pennsylvania State University, USA, Comparative Literature Studies “... An important contribution to international Brodsky studies, Berlina's book uses the poet's self-translations to arrive at detailed reinterpretations of his work ... In this way Berlina red
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- Author
- Alexandra Berlina; Robert Chandler
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Academic; Bloomsbury
- Published
- 2014
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781628927054
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Poetry, Language Learning, Literary Criticism