About Russian translations of Chinese poetry on the example of Bai Juyi
https://doi.org/10.25587/2782-6635-2025-2-83-93
Abstract
The article is devoted to the poetic analysis of Russian translations from Chinese on the example of Bai Juyi, a classic of the Tang era. The range of translations under consideration includes almost everything that has been created since the 1920s. The main attention in the analysis is paid to three aspects: metre, stanza and rhyme. The article contains both a general description of the corpus of these texts and an analysis of individual poems. Thematically, the material is divided into two blocks: the classical type of verse and the non-classical type. Translations of L. Aidlin are considered separately as the most interesting cases of the classical type. The nonclassical type of verse is represented mainly by R. Sh. Masalimov's works.
About the Author
M. A. Bystrov
A.M. Gorky Literary Institute
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Mikhail A. BYSTROV – 4th year student
Moscow
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Bystrov M.A. About Russian translations of Chinese poetry on the example of Bai Juyi. Issues of National Literature. 2025;(2):83-93. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.25587/2782-6635-2025-2-83-93
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