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27th January 2015
As regular readers of this blog will know, I have a particular interest in cultural relations between the English-speaking world and Europe, especially Germany and Russia. I’ve written before about the popularity of Jack London in Russia, ‘until the 1950’s … by far the most popular American author’ there, and illustrated a few of the many translations […]
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11th February 2013
As many of you know, I am interested in the reception of anglophone writers in Russia. (See Wilde in Russia and its sequel.) One of the most popular Western writers in Russia in the first half of the twentieth century was Jack London. ‘Until the 1950’s, Jack London was by far the most popular American […]
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15th December 2011
1927 saw two Russian translations of The Color of a Great City (1923), Dreiser’s classic memoir of early twentieth-century New York: this one (Gosizdat’s), by Pyotr Okhrimenko, and one for “Mysl’” (Kraski N’iu-Iorka) by V. P. Steletsky. What was particularly nice about this copy was that it still had its original dust-jacket: Pyotr Okhrimenko (1888–1975), […]
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