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outstanding translations, odd choices of poems
Andrey Kneller, the translator of this collection first came to my attention through his work translating Marina Tsvetaeva My Poems: Selected Poetry Of Marina Tsvetaeva (English and Russian Edition) which I thought was excellent.This, therefore led me to his translations of Akhmatova, of whom I am a tremendous admirer and fan.As anticipated Kneller's translations are outstanding.Naturally some latitude is given the translator (particularly with poetry) - one of the reasons why I purchased this collection (and the Tsvetaeva as well) is because they are dual language, an added bonus.Even expecting (and forgiving) the editorial decisons made, Kneller has truly created masterpieces of his own from Akhmatova's work.For example, "In the evening":

With sadness words cannot describe,
OUt in the garden, music played.
The frozen oysters on the plate
Smelled pungently of sea and brine.

He gently touched my evening dress
And said, "I am a loyal friend!"
And yet, the contact of his hand
Felt nothing like a true caress.

Thus one might pet a cat, a bird,
Or watch a slender circus rider ...
Beneath his golden lashes, hiding
Amusement, happiness and mirth.

And as the smoke diffuses idly,
The doleful fiddles sing above it:
"O, thank the Heavens - finally
First time alone with your beloved."

The original Russian doesn't quite fit, but the sense of space, time and duplicity are brilliantly captured by Kneller.I reluctantly rate it five stars, however, for the selection.Akhmatova'w work spans nearly 5 decades, from the early 20th century through the Khrushchev era.The 40 poems presented here are heavily skewed towards Akhmatova's early work, with literally only a handful from 1940 onward.For me, her work during (and after) the war was her most interesting and powerful as she wrote of the Terror, the Seige of Leningrad, and her time in Central Asia.In the end, I had to give it a fifth star for the brilliance of the translation, and the fact the book is dual - language, something I always appreciate when reading poetry (even if it isn't in a language I can understand.)

For those unfamilar with this beautiful poet, this is a solid place to start.(Although I would also recommend Poems of Akhmatova: Izbrannye Stikhi). ... Read more

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Chapters: Boris Pasternak, Anna Akhmatova, Nikolay Gumilyov. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 27. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (Russian: ) (10 February 1890 30 May 1960) was a Nobel Prize-winning Russian and Soviet poet, novelist and translator of Goethe and Shakespeare. In Russia, Pasternak is most celebrated as a poet. My Sister Life, written in 1917, is arguably the most influential collection of poetry published in the Russian language in the 20th century. In the West he is best known for his epic novel Doctor Zhivago, a tragedy whose events span the last period of the Russian Empire and the early days of the Soviet Union. It was first translated and published in Italy in 1957. He helped give birth to the dissident movement with the publication of Doctor Zhivago. Pasternak was born in Moscow on 10 February, (Gregorian), 1890 (Julian 29 January) into a wealthy Russian-Jewish family. His father was the famous artist, Leonid Pasternak, professor at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture, and his mother was Rosa (Raitza) Kaufman, a concert pianist. Pasternak was brought up in a highly cosmopolitan and intellectual atmosphere: family friends and regular visitors to his childhood home included pianist and composer Sergei Rachmaninoff, composer and mystic Alexander Scriabin, existentialist Lev Shestov, poet Rainer Maria Rilke, and writer Leo Tolstoy. Pasternak aspired first to be a composer, turned next to philosophy and then eventually to writing as his vocation. Boris (left) with his brotherInspired by his neighbour Alexander Scriabin, Pasternak resolved to become a composer and entered the Moscow Conservatory. In 1910 he abruptly left the conservatory for the University of Marburg, where he studied under Neo-Kantian philosophers Her...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=4667 ... Read more

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Chapters: Anna Akhmatova, Collectivization in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Stepan Bandera, Alexander Pechersky, Vasyl Stus, Leonid Plyushch, Hnat Khotkevych, Les Kurbas, Danylo Shumuk, Ivan Kuchuhura Kucherenko, Yevhen Konovalets, Josyf Slipyj, Hryhorii Epik, Mykola Leontovych, Nikolai Getman, Andrei Shkuro, Lev Kopelev, Mykola Rudenko, Theodore Romzha, Boris Hessen, Serhiy Yefremov, Vladimir Antonov-Ovseyenko, Oleksa Hirnyk, Klymentiy Sheptytsky, Stanislav Kosior, Hryhory Bazhul, Ukrainian Helsinki Group, Metropolitan Vasyl, Mikhail Kravchuk, Ivan Kandyba, Vasiliy Bodnarchuk, Myroslav Marynovych, Nykyta Budka, Valeriy Marchenko, Vitaliy Kalynychenko, Mykola Horbal, Vasyl Velychkovsky, Levko Lukyanenko, Mikhail Koltsov, Ostap Vyshnya, Aleksandr Shpakovsky, Yaroslav Lesiv, Mykola Bohuslavsky, Yosyf Zisels, Nadiya Svitlychna, Ivan Boretz. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 201. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Institutions: All-Union Communist Party (Bolshevik) Communist Party (Bolshevik) of Ukraine Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic Government of the Soviet Union Secret police Collectivization in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic was part of the policy of Collectivization in the USSR and dekulakization that was pursued between 1928 and 1933 with the purpose to consolidate individual land and labour into collective farms called kolkhoz and to eliminate enemies of the working class. The idea of collective farms was seen by peasants as a revival of serfdom. In Soviet Ukraine this policy had a dramatic effect on the Ukrainian ethnic population and its culture as 86% of the population lived in rural settings. The forceful introduction of the policy of collectivization was one of the main causes of the Holodomor. In Ukraine collectivization had specific goals and outcom...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=17652562 ... Read more

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"""Poema bez geroia"" Anny Akhmatovoi, nad kotoroi ona rabotala chetvert' veka, - odno iz samykh zagadochnykh proizvedenii russkoi literatury. V nei zashifrovany imena i sobytiia, ne znaia o kotorykh, chitatel' vriad li sumeet proniknut' v glubinu teksta i poniat' ego istinnyi smysl. Vydaiuschaiasia aktrisa Alla Demidova, ne raz ispolniavshaia proizvedeniia Akhmatovoi so stseny, uvleklas' razgadkoi tainopisi znamenitoi poemy. Kakie real'nye liudi kroiutsia za vymyshlennymi imenami ee personazhei, v chem sut' ikh otnoshenii, kak sviazany opisyvaemye sobytiia s podlinnymi literaturnymi istoricheskimi iavleniiami - vot te voprosy, na kotorye ona ischet - i nakhodit - otvety. Aktrisa priznaetsia, chto proseiala cherez svoiu pamiat' mnozhestvo materialov: pis'ma, dnevnikovye zapisi samoi Akhmatovoi, ee stikhi, vospominaniia i kommentarii ee sovremennikov. I eta rabota vylilas' v knigu ""Akhmatovskie zerkala"".... ... " ... Read more

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Anna Akhmatova, Probal Dasgupta, Leonard Nathan. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : Anna Akhmatova (en russe : ; 23 juin 1889 - 5 mars 1966) est le nom de plume d'Anna Andreïevna Gorenko (en russe : ), une des plus importantes poétesses russes du siècle. Égérie des acméistes, surnommée la « reine de la Neva » ou « l'Âme de l'Âge d'Argent », Anna Akhmatova demeure aujourd'hui encore l'une des plus grandes figures féminines de la littérature russe. L'œuvre d'Akhmatova se compose aussi bien de petits poèmes lyriques, genre qu'elle contribue à renouveler, que de grandes compositions poétiques, comme Requiem, son sombre chef-d'œuvre sur la terreur stalinienne. Les thèmes récurrents de son œuvre sont le temps qui passe, les souvenirs, le destin de la femme créatrice et les difficultés pour vivre et pour écrire dans l'ombre du stalinisme. Anna Akhmatova en 1914Akhmatova est née à Bolchoï Fontan, près d'Odessa, troisième des six enfants d'un père ingénieur de marine. Dès 1890, la famille s'installe à Tsarskoïe Selo, où Anna reste jusqu'à l'âge de 16 ans. Elle grandit dans un milieu aisé, apprend très tôt le français à Tsarskoïe Selo. Elle écrit de la poésie dès l'âge de 11 ans, inspirée par ses poètes favoris : Evguéni Baratynski et Pouchkine. Son père craignant pour la réputation de son patronyme, elle prend le pseudonyme d'Akhmatova du nom d'origine tatare de sa grand-mère. Dessin d'Anna Akhmatova par Modigliani, 1911Après la séparation de ses parents en 1905, elle vit avec sa mère et ses frères et sœurs puis entreprend des études de droit dans une école pour filles de la bonne société à Kiev. Au cours de ses études, elle rencontre le poète Nikolaï Goumilev qu'elle finit par épouser en 1910, après qu'il...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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Chapters: Osip Mandelstam, Anna Akhmatova, Boris Dubin, Arseny Tarkovsky, Virgilijus Čepaitis, Mariya Petrovykh, Nora Gal, Carlos Sherman, Dmitry Gerasimov, Vera Inber,. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 52. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Anna Akhmatova (Russian and Ukrainian: ; June 23 1889 - March 5, 1966) was the pen name of the modernist poet Anna Andreyevna Gorenko (Russian: ; Ukrainian: ), one of the most acclaimed female writers in the Russian canon. Akhmatova's work ranges from short lyric poems to intricately structured cycles, such as Requiem (1935-40), her tragic masterpiece about the Stalinist terror. Her style, characterised by its economy and emotional restraint, was strikingly original and distinctive to her contemporaries. The strong and clear leading female voice struck a new chord in Russian poetry. Her writing can be said to fall into two periods - the early work (1912-25) and her later work (from around 1936 until her death), divided by a decade of reduced literary output. Her work was condemned and censored by Stalinist authorities and she is notable for choosing not to emigrate, and remaining in Russia, acting as witness to the atrocities around her. Her perennial themes include meditations on time and memory, and the difficulties of living and writing in the shadow of Stalinism. Primary sources of information about Akhmatova's life are relatively scant, as war, revolution and the totalitarian regime caused much of the written record to be destroyed. For long periods she was in official disfavour and many of those who were close to her died in the aftermath of the revolution. Akhmatova wrote, No one in my large family wrote poetry. But the first Russian woman poet, Anna Bunina, was the aunt of my grandfather Erasm Ivanovich Stogov. The Stogovs were modest land...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=66569 ... Read more