“Dunkelhellila” (Dark Light Violet) vs “Grayish Brown Purple”: Gottfried Benn’s Poetry in Russian Translations

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Classification – name: Literary studies
Author: Nikon I. Kovalev
Pages: 767–785
Publisher: A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IWL RAS Publ.)
Rights – description: Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 (СС BY-ND)
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Language of the publication: Russian
Type of document: Research Article
Collection: Russia – Germany: Literary Encounters (after 1945)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22455/978-5-9208-0683-3-767-785
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https://elibrary.ru/LRBVAX
Year of publication: 2022
Place of publication: Moscow
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Kovalev, N.I. “ʽDunkelhellila’ (Dark Light Violet) vs ʽGrayish Brown Purple’: Gottfried Benn’s poetry in Russian Translations.” Russia — Germany: Literary Encounters (after 1945). Мoscow, IWL RAS Publ., 2022, pp. 767–785. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.22455/978-5-9208-0683-3-767-785

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Nikon I. Kovalev, PhD in Philology, Senior Researcher, A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Povarskaya 25 a, 121069 Moscow, Russia.

ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2155-3264

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Abstract:

The paper discusses the translations of Gottfried Benn’s poetry into Russian. Different versions of Benn’s early poem Little Aster (by Victor Toporov, Vladimir Mikushevich, Vladimir Weber, Evgeny Golovin, Albert Karelsky, and Fotina Ivanova) are analyzed.

Keywords: Gottfried Benn, free verse, heteromorphic verse, translation, Expressionism.

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