Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Notes on contributors ix
5. Introduction 1
6. Part I. Contexts
7. Shifting contexts 19
8. Nation and translation 33
9. Vasilii Zhukovskii as translator and the protean Russian nation 55
10. Romania as Europe’s translator 79
11. Translating India, constructing self 97
12. The water of life 117
13. Translation trouble 137
14. Part II. Subtexts
15. Between the lines 149
16. Translation theory and cold war politics 171
17. The poetics and politics of Joseph Brodsky as a Russian poet-translator 187
18. Squandered opportunities 205
19. Meaningful absences 219
20. Part III. Pretexts
21. Translated by Goblin 235
22. “No text is an island” 249
23. Russian dystopia in exile 265
24. Between cosmopolitanism and hermeticism 277
25. The other polysystem 295
26. Translation as condition and theme in Milan Kundera’s novels 317
27. Index 323