Mark Twain censorship?

[Boris Dralyuk]

Dear Yelena,

It's hard going, I know!  See if these help:

Choldin, Marianna Tax and Maurice Friedberg, eds. The Red Pencil: Artists, Scholars, and Censors in the USSR. Boston: Unwin Hyman, 1989.

Friedberg, Maurice. Literary Translation in Russia: A Cultural History. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997.

Leighton, Lauren G. Two Worlds, One Art: Literary Translation in Russia and America. Dekalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1991.

Magidoff, Robert. In Anger and Pity: A Report on Russia. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1949.  Pp. 230-233.

Also, see what Kornei Chukovskii says about his experiences translating Twain.  The other translators include Mariia Lorie and N. Daruzes.

I hope that helps!

Yours,
Boris Dralyuk
UCLA


-----Original Message-----
>From: yelena kalinsky <kyelenak at GMAIL.COM>
>Sent: Sep 29, 2010 11:55 AM
>To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu
>Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Mark Twain censorship?
>
>Thanks for the leads, everyone.
>
>The only things I've been able to dig up so far is a few statements to the
>effect that Twain had been "labeled a bourgeois writer" (The Mark Twain
>Encyclopedia) and that his books were "confiscated at the border" in 1930,
>but had "become best sellers in the Soviet Union" by 1946. (Banned Books:
>387 BC to 1978 AD). But there are no citations given to actual instances. I
>know that Twain was hugely popular, and it makes sense that his descriptions
>of Russia might have been cut in tsarist times, but I'm curious whether
>Twain's satire ever faced political accusations in the Soviet period despite
>its popularity.
>
>best,
>
>Yelena
>
>
>On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 11:05 AM, Jan Zielinski <zielinski at gmx.ch> wrote:
>
>> Yelena Kalinsky asks:
>>
>>
>> >I wonder if anybody knows whether Mark Twain was ever censored in the
>> Soviet Union or how I might find out?
>>
>> He was censored already by the tsarist censorship:
>>
>> "Первый русский перевод <<Простаков за границей>> появился в 1897 г. Царская
>> цензура сделала в книге сокращение, в частности там, где он описывал
>> пребывание в России."
>>
>> http://vashsevdom.narod.ru/histor/twain.html
>>
>> http://forum.roerich.info/showthread.php?t=7210
>>
>> Here you have something about the film "Adventures of Mark Twain" and the
>> soviet censorship:
>>
>> http://www.diary.ru/~chageandaska/p31513978.htm<http://www.diary.ru/%7Echageandaska/p31513978.htm>
>>
>> You may also want to have a look at this 1963 "Voprosy literatury" paper,
>> to see the other side of the problem:
>>
>> http://dlib.eastview.com/browse/doc/11980114?enc=deu
>>
>> Jan Zielinski
>>
>>
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