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I must say, I don't think I'd heard of him before. Legolas Send a noteboard - 04/04/2017 10:31:26 PM

View original postThe problem of what does and doesn't get translated into other languages. If I were a non-Russian, I don't think I would know about him. When learning about Russian literature in college (university for you non-Americans), I do not recall him being mentioned. I only know of him from my own readings for fun.

But then, the number of (modern) non-English writing poets who are globally famous is fairly vanishingly small, so not that strange. Among Russian poets I'd only be able to name Akhmatova, and even then with basically no idea of what her work is like. Not that I'd do all that much better with novelists, but a little at least. And same for other languages.

I guess poetry loses more in translation than prose, or people think it does, so less likelihood of translations being published, or being commercially successful at least.

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He loomed large in the novel by Aksyonov I read relatively recently, A Mysterious Passion. - 04/04/2017 03:47:45 AM 2112 Views
Non-Russians don't necessarily know they should be interested. - 04/04/2017 12:35:49 PM 1967 Views
I must say, I don't think I'd heard of him before. - 04/04/2017 10:31:26 PM 2035 Views
Poetry loses almost everything in translation. - 05/04/2017 04:05:34 AM 2292 Views
You'd be able to name Pushkin too. - 05/04/2017 01:11:14 PM 2149 Views
Don't get me started on Russian literature classes - 05/04/2017 04:10:04 AM 2038 Views
Mine was similar. - 05/04/2017 01:17:59 PM 1908 Views
I honestly don't know enough about him. - 04/04/2017 12:41:35 PM 1931 Views
You know his work. You just don't know you know it. - 05/04/2017 03:56:28 AM 2063 Views
This appears to be true. - 05/04/2017 01:22:49 PM 2086 Views

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