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Discover the masterful art of poetic and dramatic translation with Mikhail Donskoy: Selected Translations, part of the Coryphaei of Literary Translation: St. Petersburg School series from Petropolis Publishing. This volume showcases the work of Mikhail Alexandrovich Donskoy, a luminary of the Leningrad-St. Petersburg translation tradition of the 20th century.
Donskoy’s virtuosity brings to life complex poetic texts by Hugo, Verhaeren, Baudelaire, Valle-Inclán, Browning, and Gautier, as well as satirical romances by Quevedo and epic poems by Juan Ruiz and José Hernández. His four-decade career also encompasses masterful translations of plays by Shakespeare, Molière, Regnard, Lope de Vega, and Tirso de Molina, among other 16th–18th century authors. Notably, Donskoy co-translated Jerome K. Jerome’s Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog) with Elga Linetskaya. This edition includes a fragment from his unpublished translation of P. Benoit’s detective novel Albert.
This collection reveals the full range of Donskoy’s exceptional talent, offering a rich journey through world literature. Price: 1710.00 RUR.