Marietta Chudakova on Stalinism and its legacy in post-Soviet times (29.05.2010)

[Alexandra Smith]

Dear Colleagues,

Just to let you know about one very interesting interview with  
Marietta Chudakova on Stalinism and its legacy in post-Soviet times.  
I've just discovered it by chance while searching for the "Liniia  
zhizni" programme that features Chudakova. The address of the  
programme on Stalinism and today's Russia is here:  
http://video.yandex.ru/users/travel25/view/146/

All best,
Alexandra







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Alexandra Smith (PhD, University of London)
Reader in Russian Studies
Department of European Languages and Cultures
School of  Languages, Literatures and Cultures
The University of Edinburgh
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Quoting Alexandra Smith <Alexandra.Smith at ED.AC.UK>:

> Dear Anna,
>
> I think that Michael Glenny's translation of "Sobach'e serdtse" is  
> good in many ways. You can read it on this website:  
> http://www.lib.ru/BULGAKOW/dogheart_engl.txt
> You could compare it to Mirra Ginzburg's translation (some pages are  
> available for perusal through the amazon  
> site:http://www.amazon.com/Heart-Dog-Mikhail-Bulgakov/dp/0802150594)
> It's curious though that both versions render Bulgakov's reference  
> to porridge in a peculiar way: while Glenny translates the sentence  
> "Pozharnye uzhinaiut kashei, kak izvestno" as "firemen have soup for  
> supper, you know", Ginzburg says, "The firemen get kasha for supper,  
> as you know".
> I think that Glenny's version is more laconic and has a better flow.  
> To my mind, despite of some inaccuracies here and there in this  
> particular translation, Michael Glenny stands out as a person who  
> has "a sensitivity to style in both languages and sound judgment",  
> to use Helena Goscilo's phrase. (I totally agree with Helena's point.)
> In terms of bibliography, I think that many interesting and useful  
> points about the contextual setting of "Sobach'e serdtse" and  
> Bulgakov's responses to various political and intellectual debates  
> of the 1920s are offered in these works:
> *Белобровцева, И. "Мотив гомункулуса в творчестве Михаила  
> Булгакова",  Булгаковский сборник: Материалы по истории русской  
> литературы XX века. Таллинн, 1994, 47-36.
> *Иоффе, С. "Тайнопись в «Собачьем сердце» Булгакова", Новый Журнал,  
> кн.168-169, 260-274.
> *Howell,Yvonne. "Eugenics, Rejuvenation, and Bulgakov's Journey into  
> the Heart of Dogness", Slavic Review, Vol. 65, No. 3 (Autumn, 2006),  
> pp. 544-562
> *Burgin, Diana L."Bulgakov's Early Tragedy of the Scientist-Creator:  
> An Interpretation of The Heart of a Dog", The Slavic and East  
> European Journal, Vol. 22, No. 4 (Winter, 1978), pp. 494-508.
> *Milne, Lesley. Mikhail Bulgakov: A Critical Biography. Cambridge:  
> Cambridge University Press,1990.
> *Fusso, Susanne. "Failures of Transformation in Sobac’e serdce", The  
> Slavic and East European Journal,Vol. 33, No. 3, autumn 1989, 286-399.
> *Mørch, Audun. "Platonov’s Happy Moscow and Bulgakov’s Heart of a  
> Dog: Prosaic Imaginations of a New Man", Essays in Poetics. Vol. 24,  
> autumn 1999. 143-157.
> *Richmond, Steven. ”And who are the judges?” Mikhail Bulgakov versus  
> Soviet censorship, 1926- 1936", Russian history/Histoire Russe, 33,  
> No.1, spring 2006. 83-107.
> *Lovell, Stephen. "Bulgakov as Soviet Culture", The Slavonic and  
> East European Review. Vol. 76, No. 1, January 1998. 28-48.
>
> All best,
> Alexandra
>
>
>
> ------------------------------------------
> Alexandra Smith (PhD, University of London)
> Reader in Russian Studies
> Department of European Languages and Cultures
> School of  Languages, Literatures and Cultures
> The University of Edinburgh
> David Hume Tower
> George Square
> Edinburgh EH8 9JX
> UK
>
> tel. +44-(0)131-6511381
> fax: +44- (0)131 -651 -1482
> e-mail: Alexandra.Smith at ed.ac.uk
>
>
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