AFTER LERMONTOV by Mikhail Lermontov, Peter France (Editor), Robyn Marsack (Editor) ( 9781847775351 )

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Title:

AFTER LERMONTOV
TRANSLATIONS FOR THE BICENTENARY

By:

Mikhail Lermontov, Peter France (Editor), Robyn Marsack (Editor)

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Electronic book text

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ISBN 10:

1847775357

ISBN 13:

9781847775351

Publisher:

CARCANET PRESS LTD

Pub. date:

24 April, 2014

Description:

A landmark collection of translations of this vital Russian poet, specially commissioned for the bicentenary. To celebrate Lermontov's Scots heritage, most of the translators are Scottish or have Scottish connections, and some of the poems are translated into Scots.

Synopsis:

Mikhail Lermontov (1814 - 41) is best known in the West today as the author of the novel A Hero of Our Time. But at the time of his death, aged only 26, he was widely regarded as Russia's greatest living poet. He achieved almost instant fame in 1837 with 'On the Death of a Poet', his tribute to Pushkin - whose death in a duel foreshadowed Lermontov's own. Over the course of the next four years he went on to write many short poems, both lyric and satirical, and two long verse narratives. He was particularly known for his depictions of the Caucasus, where he was exiled for a time, taking part in battles such as the one described in his poem 'Valerik'. Lermontov traced his ancestry to Scotland, and this book offers a Scottish perspective on the Russian poet. Most of the translators are Scottish or have Scottish connections, and some of the poems are translated into Scots. As Peter France writes in his introduction, this bicentennial volume aims to bring Lermontov's poems to a new readership by enabling them to live again' in English and in Scots.

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Carcanet Press Ltd

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