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О. Mandelstam in the first Russian translations by P. Celan
https://doi.org/10.28995/2686-7249-2019-6-178-194
Abstract
The paper focuses on the analysis of the first translations of poems by Paul Celan into Russian (1960–1970). The early-translated texts were often made in close proximity to some of Osip Mandelstam’s poems, which, especially in the translation of early works, is not appropriate at all. Celan did not become acquainted with Mandelstam’s work until 1957, when he was most intensively involved in the translation of Russian poetry, which had a special impact on his own poetics. However, not for his early cycles of “Mohn und Gedachtnis” and “Sprachgitter”. The first translations of the poems from these collections into Russian went through the domestication of the Celan’s lines acoustically and lexically bringing them closer to the works of Mandelstam, already known by the Russian-speaking reader. By examples of poems “In Memory of Paul Eluard”, “Eyes”, “Rain Fills the Mug” and “Slope” the author considers the biographically unsubstantiated imitation of phonetics and partially lexics of Mandelstam in the translation.
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A. I. TretiakovaGermany
Aleksandra I. Tretiakova, postgraduate student, bld. 15, Universitätsring, Trier, Germany, 54296
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For citation: Tretiakova A.I. О. Mandelstam in the first Russian translations by P. Celan. RSUH/RGGU Bulletin: “Literary Teory. Linguistics. Cultural Studies”, Series. 2019;(6(2)):178-194. https://doi.org/10.28995/2686-7249-2019-6-178-194
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