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A.M. Gorky Institute
of World Literature
of the Russian Academy of Sciences

IWL RAS Publishing

A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature
of the Russian Academy of Sciences

 IWL RAS

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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
  • EDN:

    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

Information about the author:

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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