“Dunkelhellila” (Dark Light Violet) vs “Grayish Brown Purple”: Gottfried Benn’s Poetry in Russian Translations

Information about the author:

Nikon I. Kovalev, PhD in Philology, Senior Researcher, A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Povarskaya 25 a, 121069 Moscow, Russia.

ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2155-3264 

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Abstract:

The paper discusses the translations of Gottfried Benn’s poetry into Russian. Different versions of Benn’s early poem Little Aster (by Victor Toporov, Vladimir Mikushevich, Vladimir Weber, Evgeny Golovin, Albert Karelsky, and Fotina Ivanova) are analyzed.