Brodsky Translating Brodsky: Poetry in Self-Translation

By Alexandra Berlina

Book Overview

Is poetry lost in translation, or is it perhaps the other way around? Is it found? Gained? Won?
What happens when a poet decides to give his favorite Russian poems a new life in English? Are the new texts shadows, twins or doppelgangers of their originals-or are they something completely different? Does the poet resurrect himself from the death of the author by reinterpreting his own work in another language, or does he turn into a monster: a bilingual, bicultural centaur?
Alexandra Berlina, herself a poetry translator and a 2012 Barnstone Translation Prize laureate, addresses these questions in this new study of Joseph Brodsky, whose Nobel-prize-winning work has never yet been discussed from this perspective.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501314289
• ISBN13: 9781501314285
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"