The man who brought Brodsky into English : conversations with George L. Kline /

The man who brought Brodsky into English : conversations with George L. Kline /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Haven, Cynthia L., author, interviewer.
Imprint:	Brookline, MA : Academic Studies Press, 2021. ©2021
Description:	205 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Jews of Russia & Eastern Europe and their legacy Jews of Russia & Eastern Europe and their legacy.
Subject:	Kline, George L. -- (George Louis), -- 1921-2014 -- Interviews. Brodsky, Joseph, -- 1940-1996. Brodsky, Joseph, -- 1940-1996 -- Translations into English. Brodsky, Joseph, -- 1940-1996 Kline, George L. -- (George Louis), -- 1921-2014 Translators -- United States -- Interviews. Russian poetry -- 20th century -- Translations into English. Translators United States Interviews
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12577945

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Other authors / contributors:	Kline, George L. (George Louis), 1921-2014, interviewee. Polukhina, Valentina, writer of afterword.
ISBN:	9781644695135 1644695138 9781644695142 1644695146 9781644695159 9781644695166
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references.
Summary:	"Brodsky's poetic career in the West was launched when Joseph Brodsky: Selected Poems was published in 1973. Its translator was a scholar and war hero, George L. Kline. This is the story of that friendship and collaboration, from its beginnings in 1960s Leningrad and concluding with the Nobel poet's death in 1996. Kline translated more of Brodsky's poems than any other single person, with the exception of Brodsky himself. The Bryn Mawr philosophy professor and Slavic scholar was a modest and retiring man, but on occasion he could be as forthright and adamant as Brodsky himself. "Akhmatova discovered Brodsky for Russia, but I discovered him for the West," he claimed. Kline's interviews with author Cynthia L. Haven before his death in 2015 include a description of his first encounter with Brodsky, the KGB interrogations triggered by their friendship, Brodsky's emigration, and the camaraderie and conflict over translation. When Kline called Brodsky in London to congratulate him for the Nobel, the grateful poet responded, "And congratulations to you, too, George!""--
Other form:	Online version: Haven, Cynthia L., The man who brought Brodsky into English Boston : Academic Studies Press, 2020. 9781644695159

Table of Contents:

Introduction: To please two shadows
A love affair with language
The Leningrad poet and "a gift fit for a king"
How the KGB defended Russian poetry
The poet in exile: I'll live out my days...
The "Good Lexicon" rule
Kline takes up the Gauntlet
"What did you do in World War II?"
Selected translations by George Kline
Occasional poems: George Kline, Joseph Brodsky
A bibliography of Kline's translations of Joseph Brodsky's poems
George L. Kline chronology.