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Iwan Sergejewitsch Turgenews Sammlung'Gedichte'bietet ein eindringliches Porträt der menschlichen Erfahrung, geprägt von einer melancholischen Reflexion über Liebe, Natur und die Vergänglichkeit des Lebens. Literarisch verankert im Realismus des 19. Jahrhunderts, verbindet Turgenew lyrische Eleganz mit einer tiefen psychologischen Einsicht. Seine Gedichte sind oft autobiografisch gefärbt und zeugen von einem feinen Gespür für das Wechselspiel zwischen Innerem und Äußeren, wobei die Natur als Spiegel der menschlichen Emotionen dient. Turgenew, geboren in eine wohlhabende Familie im damaligen Russland, erlebte eine Zeit des politischen Umbruchs und gesellschaftlichen Wandels. Diese Prägungen, zusammen mit seinem Engagement in der Opposition und seinen Reisen durch Europa, fließen in seine literarischen Werke ein. Als einer der bedeutendsten Autoren des 19. Jahrhunderts schuf er nicht nur Romane, sondern auch eine Vielzahl an Gedichten, die seine philosophischen Überlegungen und seine Faszination für die menschliche Seele zum Ausdruck bringen.'Gedichte'ist ein unverzichtbares Werk für jeden Liebhaber der Lyrik und Literatur. Es lädt dazu ein, die Sprachgewalt und emotionale Tiefe von Turgenews Gedanken zu erkunden. Leser können sich auf eine bewegende Reise begeben, die nicht nur unterhält, sondern auch zum Nachdenken anregt – ein echter Genuss für Geist und Seele.

The 50th volume of Stanford Slavic Studies brings together prominent international specialists in the study of Russian literary history. 42 contributors are affiliated with leading academic centers in the United States, the European Union, United Kingdom, Russia, and Israel. Their essays propose new approaches and introduce hitherto unknown materials that address themes central to literary scholarship, such as theory of Russian verse, history of Russian Formalism, Russian-German and Russian-Italian cultural ties. The chapters of this book cover such towering figures of modern Russian letters as Pushkin, Gogol, Akhmatova, Mandelshtam, Nabokov, and Pasternak. The volume is dedicated to the distinguished authority in Russian poetry and comparative literary studies, Professor of Princeton University Michael Wachtel.

En este juego de espejos Zinaida Gippius se trasviste. Cherubina de Gabriak intenta ocultar una malformación física. Ambas son dos de las más grandes poetas rusas del Siglo de Plata. Cherubina inventa su nombre y se transforma en un mito. Gippius realiza un juego de máscaras. Ambas mujeres exploran los vínculos entre religión y sexualidad. Este volumen recoge por primera vez en español parte de la producción de ambas poetas. Natalia Litvinova

Osip Mandelstam is one of the greatest of twentieth-century poets and Voronezh Notebooks, a sequence of poems composed between 1935 and 1937 when he was living in internal exile in the Soviet city of Voronezh, is his last and most exploratory work. Meditating on death and survival, on power and poetry, on marriage, madness, friendship, and memory, challenging Stalin between lines that are full of the sights and sounds of the steppes, blue sky and black earth, the roads, winter breath, spring with its birds and flowers and bees, the notebooks are a continual improvisation and an unapologetic affirmation of poetry as life.This English-only edition does not include the poems in their original language.

Through the poetry of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Russian authors, including Pushkin and Akhmatova, Poetry Reader for Russian Learners helps upper-beginner, intermediate, and advanced Russian students refine their language skills. Poems are coded by level of difficulty. The text facilitates students'interaction with authentic texts, assisted by a complete set of learning tools, including biographical sketches of each poet, stress marks, annotations, exercises, questions for discussion, and a glossary. An ancillary Web site contains audio files for all poems.

After Semyon Izrailevich Lipkin was named Poetry Book Society Recommended Translation (Winter 2011) Semyon Izrailevich Lipkin (1911-2003) is now recognised as a leading literary figure in Russia, though he is still relatively unknown in the west. In his own country, he was for many years known primarily as a translator, with only close friends able to read his poems. These friends included the great poet Anna Akhmatova, who acknowledged and supported his genius. It was not until the collapse of the Soviet Union that the general reading public was allowed to become fully aware of the scope and depth of Semyon Lipkin's own poetry. His work is concerned with history and philosophical exploration, but above all shows a keen sense of people's diverse destinies. His poems are rich with references to his Jewish heritage and to the Bible, and they draw on a first-hand awareness of the tragedies of World War II. Yvonne Green has worked for eight years, making and working from literal translations to create'versions'– poems'after Lipkin'that bring to English some of this fascinating writer's most characteristic verse.

Der letzte Tag im Juli; auf tausend Werst im Umkreise rings Rußland – der heimatliche Boden. Der ganze Himmel strahlt in einfarbigem Blau; droben ein einzelnes Wölkchen – halb schwimmend, halb zerfließend. Windesstille, brütende Hitze... die Luft – würzig wie frischgemolkene Milch! Die Lerchen trillern; die Turteltauben gurren; lautlos gleiten die Schwalben umher; die Pferde schnauben und kauen; die Hunde bellen nicht, stehen da und wedeln friedfertig mit dem Schwanze. Und nach Rauch riecht es, und nach Gras – und auch nach Teer ein wenig – und ein wenig nach Leder. – Der Hanf auf den Feldern ist schon hoch aufgeschossen und strömt seinen schweren, aber süßen Duft aus. Eine tiefe, jedoch sanft absteigende Schlucht öffnet sich. An beiden Abhängen mehrere Reihen dickbuschiger, zerborstener Weiden. In der Tiefe der Schlucht rieselt ein Bach; kleine Kiesel auf seinem Grunde blinken wie zitternd durch seine klaren Wellen hindurch. – In der Ferne, am Saume zwischen Erde und Himmel – schimmert der bläuliche Streif eines großen Stromes.

With this edition Swallow Press presents two of Anna Akhmatova's best-known works that represent the poet at full maturity, and that most trenchantly process the trauma she and others experienced living under Stalin's regime.Akhmatova began the three-decade process of writing “Requiem” in 1935 after the arrests of her son, Lev Gumilev, and her third husband. The autobiographical fifteen-poem cycle primarily chronicles a mother's wait—lining up outside Leningrad Prison every day for seventeen months—for news of her son's fate. But from this limbo, Akhmatova expresses and elevates the collective grief for all the thousands vanished under the regime, and for those left behind to speculate about their loved ones'fates. Similarly, Akhmatova wrote “Poem without a Hero” over a long period. It takes as its focus the transformation of Akhmatova's beloved city of St. Petersburg—historically a seat of art and culture—into Leningrad. Taken together, these works plumb the foremost themes for which Akhmatova is known and revered. When Ohio University Press published D. M. Thomas's translations in 1976, it was the first time they had appeared in English. Under Thomas's stewardship, Akhmatova's words ring clear as a bell.