Brodsky Translating Brodsky: Poetry in Self-Translation

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.

Product details

• Authors: Alexandra Berlina, Berlina Alexandra
• Assisted by: Robert Chandler (Introduction), Chandler Robert (Introduction)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.06.2014
• EAN: 9781623561734
• ISBN: 978-1-62356-173-4
• No. of pages: 232
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Translating & Interpreting, Translation & interpretation, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary studies: poetry and poets, Translation and interpretation