SEELANGS Digest - 29 Jun 2014 to 30 Jun 2014 (#2014-309)

Tue Jul 1 06:01:38 UTC 2014

The third translation in the second link provided by June Harris (containing "sublunar") is actually by Nabokov, it's the best I've found.

Katya Hokanson
Univ of Oregon

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>  1. English translation of Pushkin verse
>  2. PEN blogs about translation - from Russian, Spanish, French, etc
>  3. Americorps VISTA Holocaust Survivor Position in Detroit
>  4. Exegi Monumentum
>  5. Fwd: Re: [SEELANGS] Russian Avant-Garde and the "body"
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> Date:    Mon, 30 Jun 2014 11:08:02 +0100
> From:    melanie moore <madeofwords at GMAIL.COM>
> Subject: English translation of Pushkin verse
> 
> Dear SEELANGers,
> 
> The book I am translating at the moment includes a quotation from Pushkin's
> poem "Памятник". I wonder whether anyone knows of a recognized English
> translation. My Internet searches haven't been very helpful.
> 
> The lines I'm looking for are: «И долго буду тем любезен я народу... И друг
> степей калмык».
> 
> With thanks,
> Melanie (Moore)
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> Date:    Mon, 30 Jun 2014 11:50:57 +0100
> From:    Robert Chandler <kcf19 at DIAL.PIPEX.COM>
> Subject: PEN blogs about translation - from Russian, Spanish, French, etc
> 
> Dear all,
> 
> PEN have recently posted this article by me about translating collaboratively.  This link will also take you to two earlier blogs, both excellent, by Ros Schwartz and Edith Grossman: 
> 
> http://worldbookshelf.englishpen.org/Writers-in-Translation-blog?offset=0
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> All the best,
> 
> Robert
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> Robert Chandler, 42 Milson Road, London, W14 OLD
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> Date:    Mon, 30 Jun 2014 10:17:32 -0400
> From:    Alexis Zimberg <zimberg.alexis at GMAIL.COM>
> Subject: Americorps VISTA Holocaust Survivor Position in Detroit
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> Dear SEELANGS community,
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> I want to share an opportunity (with a monthly stipend and educational
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> Holocaust survivors.
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> Jewish Family Service seeks to host an individual who will help the
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> Date:    Mon, 30 Jun 2014 14:50:43 +0000
> From:    "June P. Farris" <jpf3 at UCHICAGO.EDU>
> Subject: Exegi Monumentum
> 
> Here’s one translation: http://poemsintranslation.blogspot.com/2013/10/pushkin-exegi-monumentum-from-russian.html
> 
> 
> Tidings of me shall spread through all the realm of Rus
> And every tribe in Her shall name me as they speak:
> The haughty western Pole, the east's untamed Tungus,
> North Finns and the south steppe's Kalmyk.
> 
> And long shall I a man dear to the people be
> For how my kindling lyre bid kindly feelings grow.
> For in my tyrant age I sang of liberty,
> And mercy to the men laid low.
> 
> 
> Here are several other translations: https://turcanin.wordpress.com/2012/02/16/exegi-monumentum-english/
> 
> And another site for the Deutsch translation: http://www.albionmich.com/inspiration/pushpoems2.html#exe
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> 
> It is also included in English translation in the following:
> 
> 
> ·         The Portable Nineteenth-Century Russian Reader. Ed. by George Gibion. NY: Penguin, 1993.
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> 
> 
> ·         After Pushkin: Versions of the Poems of Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin by Contemporary Poets. (p. 94, Elaine Feinstein)
> News of me then will cross the whole of Russia
> And every tribe there will have heard my name
> The Slavs, the Finns, and those in the wild Tungus,
> The Kalmucks on the plain
> 
> And they will all love me, because my songs
> Evoked some kindness in a cruel age,
> Since I once begged for mercy to assuage
> The wrongs of the downfallen
> 
> 
> ·         The Poems, Prose and Plays of Alexander Pushkin (p. 88, tr. by Babette Deutsch) “Unto Myself I Reared a Monument”
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> June Farris
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> From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list [mailto:SEELANGS at listserv.ua.edu] On Behalf Of melanie moore
> Sent: Monday, June 30, 2014 5:08 AM
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> Subject: [SEELANGS] English translation of Pushkin verse
> 
> Dear SEELANGers,
> 
> The book I am translating at the moment includes a quotation from Pushkin's poem "Памятник". I wonder whether anyone knows of a recognized English translation. My Internet searches haven't been very helpful.
> 
> The lines I'm looking for are: «И долго буду тем любезен я народу... И друг степей калмык».
> 
> With thanks,
> Melanie (Moore)
> 
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> Date:    Mon, 30 Jun 2014 23:24:40 +0400
> From:    Stanislav Chernyshov <extraclass at LEARNRUSSIAN.RU>
> Subject: Fwd: Re: [SEELANGS] Russian Avant-Garde and the "body"
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> Тема: Re: [SEELANGS] Russian Avant-Garde and the "body"
> Дата: 2014-06-29 19:27
> От: extraclass at learnrussian.ru
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> Dear Oksana,
> 
> As a student I researched imagery in Russian Avant-Garde poetry, and a 
> part of it was about "urbanist" metaphors (in Mayakovsky, Shershenevicv 
> and others) representing city landscape through human body images, just 
> like the world was understood in some archaic mythological traditions. 
> The results were published by St. Petersburg State university. I think I 
> can find some articles I published back then if you are interested.
> 
> Stanislav Chernyshov
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