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Jeremy Morris
Mastering Chaos
The Metafictional Worlds
of Evgeny Popov
phenomenon of Popov’s self-fictionalization
in both his shorter and longer works up to
the present day.
Jeremy Morris is Lecturer in Russian at
the University of Birmingham. His interests
include contemporary Russian literature,
culture and society and his current research
is focused on ethnographic approaches to
understanding lived experience in the former
Soviet Union.
Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main,
New York, Wien, 2013. 234 pp.
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This is an interesting and important
book, the first attempt to encapsulate
the highly idiosyncratic œuvre and career of
Evgeny Popov, a major and controversial figure
in the late Soviet and post-Soviet literary
landscape.» (Michael Pushkin, University of
Birmingham)
«Morris is excellent in his treatment of
the writer’s attitude towards the past and history;
and he differentiates between Popov’s
more nuanced and ambiguous view of the
Soviet experiment and those writers, likewise
liberals, who have adopted a ‘confessional’
stance.» (Robert Porter, University of
Bristol)
«A broad contextualization of the works
of this important Russian author.» (Christine
Engel, University of Innsbruck)
This is the first book devoted to the writings
of Evgeny Popov (born 1946), a major
and controversial figure in the late Soviet and
post-Soviet literary landscape. The author
uses a wide range of primary and secondary
sources, many of them in Russian, alongside
detailed analysis of the novels and stories
themselves. The introduction charts the
course of Popov’s personal and professional
biography, including major turning points
such as the Metropole affair of 1979. A chapter
on critical contexts provides a clear account
of the history of Popov’s reception.
Other chapters focus on the first collection
of short stories and the complexities of narrative
voice, the concept of the ‘non-elucidatory
principle’ at the heart of Popov’s poetics,
and the short story cycles in Metropole
and Catalogue, from the late 1970s and early
1980s. Finally the author addresses the key
T
Leon Burnett • Emily Lygo (eds)
The Art of Accommodation
Literary Translation in Russia
Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien, 2013.
309 pp., 1 table
Russian Transformations: Literature, Thought, Culture. Vol. 5
Edited by Andrew Kahn
pb. ISBN 978-3-0343-0743-7
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his collection of essays is a seminal contribution
to the establishment of translation
theory within the field of Russian literature
and culture. It brings together the
work of established academics and younger
scholars from the United Kingdom, Russia,
the United States, Sweden and France in an
area of academic study that has been largely
neglected in the Anglophone world. The essays
in the volume are linked by the conviction
that the introduction of any new text
into a host culture should always be considered
in conjunction with adjustments to prevailing
conventions within that culture. The
case studies in the collection, which cover
literary translation in Russia from the eighteenth
century to the twentieth century, demonstrate
how Russian culture has interpreted
and accommodated translated texts, and how
translators and publishers have used translation
as a means of responding to the literary,
social and political conditions of their
times. In integrating research in the area of
translated works more closely into the study
of Russian literature and culture generally,
this publication represents an important development
in current research.
Contents: Alexei Evstratov: Drama Translation
in Eighteenth-Century Russia: Masters
and Servants on the Court Stage in the 1760s
• Brian James Baer: Vasilii Zhukovskii, Translator:
Accommodating Politics in Early Nineteenth-Century
Russia • Natalia Olshanskaya:
Turgenev’s Letters on Translation • Leon Burnett:
Turgenev and the Translation of the
Quixotic • Katharine Hodgson: Heine and
Genre: Iurii Tynianov’s Translations of Heine’s
poetry • Susanna Witt: Arts of Accommodation:
The First All-Union Conference of Translators,
Moscow, 1936, and the Ideologization
of Norms • Elena Zemskova: Translators in
the Soviet Writers’ Union: Pasternak’s Translations
from Georgian Poets and the Literary
Process of the Mid-1930s • Aleksei Semenenko:
Identity, Canon and Translation: Hamlets by
Polevoi and Pasternak • Philip Ross Bullock:
Not One of Us? The Paradoxes of Translating
Oscar Wilde in the Soviet Union • Emily Lygo:
Free Verse and Soviet Poetry in the Post-Stalin
Period.
Leon Burnett is Reader in Literature at
the University of Essex, where he is currently
director of the Centre for Myth Studies. A former
member of the executive committee of
the British Comparative Literature Association,
he was the main editor of its journal,
New Comparison, from 1992 to 2000.
Emily Lygo is Lecturer in Russian at the
University of Exeter. Her research interests
are mainly in twentieth-century Russian poetry,
translation in the USSR and Anglo-Soviet
cultural relations.
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