The French Connection: Nabokov and Alfred de Musset. Ideas and Practices of Translation

The focus of attention is Nabokov's translations of Alfred de Musset's dramatic lyric, La Nuit de decembre. This is taken as a starting point for an account of Nabokov's relationship to this French Romantic poet, and beyond that for an examination of the larger context of the relation...

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Published in:Slavonic and East European Review 1995-10, Vol.73 (4), p.613-658
Main Author: Grayson, Jane
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
20th century
Anonymous writers. Authors
Anthologies
English speaking literatures
French language
French speaking and English speaking literatures
History and sciences of litterature
History of literature
Language translation
Linguistics
Literary criticism
Literature
Love poetry
Lyric poetry
Narrative poetry
Poetic meter
Poetic themes
Poetry
Romantic poetry
Translation
United States
Writers
Writing
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Summary:The focus of attention is Nabokov's translations of Alfred de Musset's dramatic lyric, La Nuit de decembre. This is taken as a starting point for an account of Nabokov's relationship to this French Romantic poet, and beyond that for an examination of the larger context of the relationship that Nabokov's translations have to the main body of his work, and the bearing this relationship has on the question of the primacy of form or feeing, artifice or reality, in his creative writing.
ISSN:0037-6795
1471-7816
2222-4327