Lermontov's Demon I:XV

Edward M Dumanis dumanis at BUFFALO.EDU
Tue Jul 11 22:21:50 UTC 2006


My sincere apologies!
I know I should check it first but, by a strange reason, I was thinking of
Georgia (not USA) where they had similar sounding male names.

With sincere apologies,

Edward Dumanis <dumanis at buffalo.edu>

On Tue, 11 Jul 2006, michael.pushkin wrote:

> Avril Pyman (University of Durham, UK, specialist on Blok) is a she!
> 
> Yours,
> 
> Mike Pushkin
> CREES
> ERI
> University of Birmingham
> UK
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Edward M Dumanis" <dumanis at BUFFALO.EDU>
> To: <SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2006 10:39 PM
> Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Lermontov's Demon I:XV
> 
> 
> I have a 1978 edition first printed in 1976 of Mikhail Lermontov
> "Selected Works" published by "Progress." The corresponding lines are on
> p. 101 there, and they are - and the whole poem as well - translated by
> Avril Pyman. He also wrote the Foreword, and translated a number of other
> Lermontov's works published in the same book.
> 
> Here's his translation of the lines:
> 
> Hour of parting, hour of meeting,
> Brings them neither joy nor sorrow;
> Nor regrets for past fast fleeting;
> Nor desires for any morrow.
> 
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> Edward Dumanis <dumanis at buffalo.edu>
> 
> 
> On Tue, 11 Jul 2006, Deborah Hoffman wrote:
> 
> > Does anyone happen to have on hand a translation (including name of
> > translator) of the following 4 lines from part I pgph XV of "Demon"?:
> >
> > ×àñ ðàçëóêè, ÷àñ ñâèäàíüÿ
> >
> > Èì íè ðàäîñòü, íè ïå÷àëü;
> >
> > Èì â ãðÿäóøåì íåò æåëàíüÿ
> >
> > È ïðîøåäøåãî íå æàëü..."
> >
> >
> >
> > In transliteration
> >
> > Chas razluki, chas svidan'ya
> >
> > Im ni radost', ni pechal';
> >
> > Im v gryadushem net zhelan'ya
> >
> > I proshedshego ne zhal'..."
> >
> >
> > It came up as a quote in a project this morning...Thanks, it will save
> > me a trip!
> >
> >
> > Deborah Hoffman
> > Information Services Chair, Graduate Student Senate
> > Modern and Classical Language Studies
> > Kent State University
> > http://users.ameritech.net/lino59/index.htm
> >
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