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

Antonii i Kleopatra. Perevod Borisa Pasternaka [Antony and Cleopatra. Translated by Boris Pasternak].

Moscow, OGIZ, 1944. 8vo, pp. 147, [1]; with a wood-engraved frontispiece portrait of Shakespeare and 5 wood-engraved illustrations by M. I. Pikov; title printed in brown and black; some light browning but a very good copy in the original illustrated wrappers, spine and small tear to margin of front cover repaired, neat ownership note to inside front cover, old booksellers’ stamp to back cover; in a folding cloth box. First edition of Pasternak’s translation. ‘In the 1930s, Pasternak gave up his attempts to join the ranks of disciplined followers of socialist realism and started his “long silent duel” with the dictator … Escaping into translation, Pasternak turned his creative energy to producing genuine Russian versions of Goethe’s Faust and selected poems of Ralegh, Jonson, Shelley, Byron, and Keats. Shakespeare, however, remained his chief concern, and translations of Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Antony and Cleopatra, Othello, 1 and 2 Henry IV, King Lear, Macbeth, and selected sonnets became his great passion and consolation before, during, and after the Second World War’ (Zdenek Stríbrný, Shakespeare and Eastern Europe, OUP, 2000, p. 98).Tarasenkov p. 295.

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