Requiem / Anna Akhmatova ; translation, Sasha Soldatow ; linocuts, G. W. Bot.
Requiem / Anna Akhmatova ; translation, Sasha Soldatow ; linocuts, G. W. Bot.
About this item
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Author / Creator
Publisher
[Tamarama, New South Wales] : Polar Bear Press, 2020.
Uniform title
Call Numbers
HF 2021/0009
Record Identifier
MMS ID
Language
Russian
English
(Language of original)Formats
Physical Description
Physical content
15 folded sheets : illustrations, 1 portrait ; 33 x 33 cm in box 36 x 36 x 4 cm.
Content type
text
still image
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
sheet
Contents
A note /
Sasha Grishin.
Publication information
Publisher
[Tamarama, New South Wales] : Polar Bear Press, 2020.
Place of Publication
New South Wales
Date Published
2020.
Access and use
Access Conditions
Mitchell Library copy at HF 2021/0009: To be issued in Special Collections Area. Copy is signed, "V/X, G.W. Bot, MMXX."
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Scope and Contents
Summary
Anna Akhmatova’s Requiem is one of the great literary works of the 20th century, in which the poet transformed her personal grief – the loss of her husband and the imprisonment of her son during the Stalinist great terror of the 1930s – into a universal lament. Fearing that it was unsafe to commit the poem to paper, Akhmatova memorised it and recit...
Alternative Titles
Full title
Requiem / Anna Akhmatova ; translation, Sasha Soldatow ; linocuts, G. W. Bot.
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Creator
Notes
General note
Title from cover.
"One of ten copies with linocuts by G.W. Bot."--Colophon.
"Set in the fonts of Lazurski and Smeijers. Printed by Nicholas Pounder on Arches." --Colophon.
Language note
In Russian with parallel English translation.
Contextual Information
Biographical note
The translator Sasha Soldatow was born in Plochingen, Germany of Russian parents in 1947 and arrived in Australia in 1949. A fluent speaker of Russian, he worked for many years as a subtitler of Russian films for SBS Television. His version of Requiem was commenced in Moscow during the turbulent winter of 1991 and first appeared in his collection,...
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
HF 2021/0009
Record Identifier
74VKaJdp43vA
Permalink
https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKaJdp43vA
Other Identifiers
DDC
709.05018
MMS ID
991024368313102626
