-
Thoughts on "Wings" by Mikhail Kuzmin
- Let me start by saying that this is not a particularly serious post. After all my excitement about Bohemian Rhapsody, my appetite for gay men in history was too large to be satiated, so I've stayed on that theme since seeing the movie, and naturally, this led to me reading the original Russian Gay Fiction--a short work called "Wings" by a ( Read more... )
-
The Land of Crimson Clouds--Arkadiy and Boris Strugatskiy--Translation Chapter 5
This chapter gave me hell, because it has poetry in it. You don't sign up to translate a sci-fi novel expecting poetry. But that's why the Strugatskiy Brothers are miles ahead of pretty much all other Soviet sci-fi authors--I'm reading "Andromeda Nebula" by Ivan Yefremov right now, and it's good, but there's certainly no poetry. It's a little ( Read more... ) -
The Land of Crimson Clouds--Arkadiy and Boris Strugatskiy--Translation Chapter 4
Took me long enough! After a month of illness and a month of finishing my master's thesis, as well as a trip to Dauge's homeland, I am back from Riga with an update. I don't know if it's good, but I can't look at it anymore. So here goes!
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
4. WORKDAYS [AKA You’ll eat what’s put in front of you, young man]
The ( Read more... ) -
Как перезагрузить отношения США и России? Одним словом-космос
Сегодня День космонавтики.
В этот же день в 1961-ом году Юрий Гагарин совершил первый полет человека в космосе. Это часто считается советским достижением, но на самом деле это и общечеловеческий подвиг-сколько людей испокон веков мечтали летать в космос, во скольких странах? Это огромная теоретическая и даже философская работа, сделанная ( Read more... ) -
The Land of Crimson Clouds--Arkadiy and Boris Strugatskiy--Translation Chapter 3
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
This chapter had so much physics in it that I almost cried, and wrote a crazy footnote which I have left intact for your amusement. Please, enjoy.
3. ON THE THRESHOLD [AKA What Men Talk About at Sleepovers]
( Read more... ) -
The Land of Crimson Clouds--Arkadiy and Boris Strugatskiy--Translation Chapter 2
The second chapter of my translation pet project is done. Here is chapter one, if you haven't seen it. But first, a note about names ( Read more... ) -
The Land of Crimson Clouds--Arkadiy and Boris Strugatskiy--Translation Chapter 1
After finishing the first trillogy of books written by the legendary Soviet sci-fi duo, brothers Arkadiy and Boris Strugatskiy, I started thinking about how much I want to share these books with my non-Russian-speaking friends. These are a bit different from the ones that made the Strugatskiy brothers famous, like Roadside Picnic, which was ( Read more... ) -
The Fatalist. Mikhail Lermontov. English Translation.
After my grandfather passed away, I was given his old copy of Mikhail Lermontov's novel A Hero of our Time. The novel has an interesting format--it is the story of one character, Grigoriy Pechorin, told through an assortment of more-or-less self-contained chapters from the point of view of different narrators. There is an old Cossack who knew ( Read more... ) -
Финал Тихого Дона в разных экранизациях: сравнительный анализ
Недавно в университете нам задали такую задачу: написать короткое эссе об экранизации русской классики. Я с радостью занялась этим делом, так и забыв, что когда речь идет о Тихом Доне, мои эссе короткими не бывают. К счастью, добрая преподавательница все прочитала и ошибки поправила. После чего я сделала несколько изменеинй и решила опубликовать ( Read more... ) -
How to Tell If You are in a Mikhail Sholokhov Story
With love and respect for the writers of The Toast.
A relative you haven’t seen hide nor hair of since the Civil War has come back, and he wants to sabotage the collective farm.
An animal has been injured in a way that eerily mirrors your life situation or that of someone close to you.
Someone is beating his wife like a beast, kicking her with his ( Read more... )