PASTERNAK, Boris Leonidovich, translator. SHAKESPEARE, W...

Otello, venetsianskii mavr. Perevod s angliiskogo Borisa Pasternaka [Othello, the Moor of Venice. Translated from the English by Boris Pasternak].

Moscow, Ogiz, 1945. 8vo, pp. 139, [1]; light browning throughout, as usual; original printed wrappers, neat ownership note to inside front wrapper, spine repaired, sewing renewed; in a folding cloth box. First edition of Pasternak’s translation. ‘Pasternak was attached to Shakespeare for all his creative life. In his best early verse collection My Sister Life (pub. 1922), the poem “English Lessons” featured Desdemona and Ophelia “letting their passions slip from their shoulders like old rags” and entering into the “reservoir of the universe” …’ (Zdenek Stríbrný, Shakespeare and Eastern Europe, OUP, 2000, p. 98).Tarasenkov p. 296.

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