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I am in the Heart of the Century Author: Mandelstam Translated by Wang Jianzhao Publisher: People's Literature Publishing House
I am in the Heart of the Century Author: Mandelstam Translated by Wang Jianzhao Publisher: People's Literature Publishing House
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Introduction · · · · · ·
Brodsky once said: "Mandelstam is more qualified than me to stand on the (Nobel Prize in Literature) podium, and everything he has done will exist as long as the Russian language." Osip Mandelstam is an outstanding and talented poet in the Russian Silver Age. His poetry has comprehensive quality and global influence, and has a neoclassical style with great realistic energy. This book selects more than 240 poems by Mandelstam, including his representative works and poems that were not published in a collection during his lifetime, and comprehensively displays the poet's poetic thoughts and artistic characteristics. The translator, Professor Wang Jianzhao, spent more than ten years repeatedly revising and polishing the translation, maintaining the original creative style and poetic art, and demonstrating the translator's mature translation skills and grasp of poetic art.
Contents:
The book "I am in the Heart of the Century: Selected Poems of Mandelstam" selects more than 240 poems by Mandelstam, a famous poet of the Russian "Silver Age", including representative works from several famous poetry collections such as "Stone Collection", "TRISTIA" and "Voronezh Poetry Collection", as well as some poems that were not published in a collection during his lifetime. Mandelstam's works have comprehensive quality and global influence, and are in a neoclassical style with great realistic energy.
Mandelstam is known as "a poet for and of civilization" and is one of the most influential poets in the world in the 20th century. The translation of this manuscript accurately demonstrates the author's creative style and poetic art, selects the most representative Mandelstam poems, and comprehensively displays the poet's poetic thoughts and artistic characteristics. The translator, Professor Wang Jianzhao, spent more than ten years repeatedly revising and polishing the translation, maintaining the style of the original work, showing its artistic characteristics, and demonstrating the translator's mature translation skills and grasp of poetic art. This is a collection of Mandelstam poems with excellent translation, selection of the best, and elegant design.
About the Author · · · · · ·
About the Author:
Osip Mandelstam is a talented poet of the Russian Silver Age and a representative of the Acmeist school. His early works were influenced by French symbolism, but he later turned to neoclassicism and gradually formed his own unique style of poetry: rigorous form, strict rhythm, elegant classical charm, full of strong historical civilization and profound moral consciousness, and with a strong sense of tragedy. Mandelstam is known as "a poet for civilization and of civilization", one of the most influential poets in the world in the 20th century, and his poems are called "poems in poems".
About the Translator:
Wang Jianzhao is a poet, translator and critic. He was born in Huzhou City, Zhejiang Province in October 1963. He is currently a professor and doctoral supervisor at Beijing Foreign Studies University. His main part-time jobs include executive director of the Chinese Poetry Society, director of the Russian Literature Research Association, researcher at the Chinese Poetry Research Institute of Peking University, and researcher at the Foreign Poetry Research Center of Capital Normal University. He has published dozens of books, including "The Friendship between Chinese and Russian Characters", "Modernist Poetry in 20th Century China", "Twenty-four Lectures on Modern Russian Poetry", "The Crow Age of Poetry", "One Second More than Forever", "Selected Poems of Wang Jianzhao", "Selected Poems of the Golden Age of Russia", "Selected Poems of the Silver Age of Russia", and "The Voice of Memory - Selected Poems of Akhmatova".
