Seeking Possev -- Please help!

[Benjamin Sher]

Dear Colleagues:

I would appreciate the help of anyone who has contact with POSSEV
Publishers. Here is the problem:

About four months ago I sent a copy of a translation I did of an
article by the emigre critic Georgii Meier to POSSEV PUBLISHERS, who
hold the copyright to the book of which it is a part. Their
publishing home used to be in Frankfurt, I think, but is now in
Moscow. Their home page and email are readily available on my own
bookmarks page. So that's not the problem.

I sent them a copy of the article by text attachment, that is, in
the body of the message as well as, I believe, as an MSWord
document. The point is that I never heard a word from them.

I am told that this is a common problem in trying to communicate with
publishers or any institutions in Russia.

My only alternative is to appeal to someone in Russian-Studies or
Seelangs who might know somebody at POSSEV to please contact me. The
rights are held by POSSEV, and even though I had planned to publish
the article, a translation of Georgii Meier's "Molitva, zaklinanie i
poezia" (under the title of "Prayer, Incantation and Poetry") on my
NON-commercial web site, I would still like to get their official
blessing. They hold the copyright. The essay is from a volume of
Meier's posthumous essays published by Possev in 1968 and entitled
"Sbornik literaturnykh statei."

Could someone help?

Yours,

Benjamin





Benjamin Sher
Russian Literary Translator
Email:sher07 at bellsouth.net
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