title: Victor Toporov’s translations of Dutch poetry (1946–2013)
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metadata.value: Michajlova, Irina
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metadata.value: Rubtsova, Svetlana
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2020-09-11T11:01:56Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2020-09-11T11:01:56Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2020-03
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metadata.value: Michajlova I., Rubtsova S. Victor Toporov’s translations of Dutch poetry (1946–2013). Scandinavian Philology, 2020, vol. 18, issue 1, pp. 168–178.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu21.2020.111
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/19426
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metadata.value: Victor Toporov (1946–2013) was a brilliant literary critic and writer of the “sixties”
  generation, who decided during his school years “not to fit into any system” and to maintain his independence. In 1969 he graduated from the department of German Philology
  of Leningrad State University; being a creative person he suffered from the absence of
  freedom of the press as he could not publish his own poems. As a result, he found a niche
  for himself in translating poetry. Many of his translations from German and English are
  both true to original texts and sound like quality Russian verses. But the situation with
  translations from Dutch is different. Comparing the source and target texts we come to
  the conclusion that the translator sought to create vivid and colorful Russian poems,
  without sticking to the original text. In particular, many of his translations of Lucebert’s
  poems are so far from the Dutch originals that they can be considered a case of literary
  mystification similar to the hoax of Vladimir Lifshitz (1913–1978), who published his
  own poems and passed them off as translations of works by a non-existent British poet
  James Clifford. Toporov’s translations from Dutch have a perfect form (a clear rhythm,
  vivid rhymes), their vocabulary is very informal, and he often uses bold neologisms.
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metadata.value: en
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.value: Scandinavian Philology;Volume 18; Issue 1
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Dutch poetry
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: poetry translation
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Victor Toporov
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Bredero
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metadata.value: Lucebert
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metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Victor Toporov’s translations of Dutch poetry (1946–2013)
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metadata.value: Article
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