Max Hayward Knihy

Hope Against Hope recounted the last four years in the life of the great Russian poet, Osip Mandelstam, and gave a hair-raising account of Stalin's terror. Hope Abandoned complements that earlier masterpiece, and in it Nadezhda Mandelstam describes their life together from 1919, and her own after Mandelstam's death in a labour camp in 1938. She also sets out his system of values and beliefs, and provides striking portraits of many of their contemporaries including Boris Pasternak and their champion till his own downfall, Nikolai Bukharin, as well as an astonishingly candid picture of Anna Akhmatova.

Príbeh Doktora Živaga sa začína roku 1903 a končí sa roku 1929 smrťou hlavného hrdinu na srdcovú porážku v preplnenej moskovskej električke. Dokončenie a epilóg románu dovádzajú udalosti do rokov druhej svetovej vojny. Mozaika výjavov a epizód z prvej vojny, februárovej a októbrovej revolúciu, občianskej vojny, nepokojov a hladu v krajine bohatou vonkajšou scenériou vytvára v konečnom dôsledku obrovskú panorámu života v Rusku. Jej stredobodom sú Jurij Živago a Lara, ich láska.

Collection includes conversations with Willard Trask, John Hollander, Herbert Mason, Ben Belitt, Richard Wilbur, Robert Fitzgerald, Max Hayward, Edmund Keeley, Octavio Paz, Michael Hamberger, Christopher Middleton. Twelve distinguished translators share their thoughts on the art and practice of literary translation in this lively series of interviews. Although the common subject is the translation of poetry, the conversations range across a field of related topics: how each person got started as a translator, how each goes about the work, the qualities that distinguish a great translation from a merely serviceable one, the theoretic issues posed by poetic translation, the barriers of culture and time, the practical details of rendering a poem from one language to the next. --University of Massachusetts Press.

English, Russian (translation)