The translator Patrick Breslin

[Robert Chandler]

Dear all,

I am trying to find out more about this gifted and unfortunate Irishman who went to Moscow in 1928 to study in the International Lenin School.  He stayed in Moscow, was arrested in 1940 and died in a transit camp in 1942.  Amongst other things, he translated poems by Blok, Mayakovsky and Chukovsky; also a few short stories, including one by Babel.  

All I know of him is from a book by Barry McLoughlin, LEFT TO THE WOLVES.  I also know that Mezhdunarodnaya Literatura published his version of Chukovsky's Telefon, and that one of his Mayakovsky translations is in Herbert Marshall's volume.

I have been in contact with Barry McLoughlin, but all he knows is already in his book.  Does anyone, by any remote chance, happen to know any more?!

All the best,

Robert



Robert Chandler, 42 Milson Road, London, W14 OLD

tel. +44 207 603 3862





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