Hamlet in war time
Publication: Moskva, Goslitizdat, 1941.
First separate edition of Shakespeare’s famous tragedy in Pasternak’s fine translation. A pleasant example of this scarce edition.
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First book edition of Pasternak’s translation – one of the best of Hamlet in Russian language. Scarce, especially in this condition: OCLC locates only one copy (in Cambridge, UK).
At the end of the 1930s, Pasternak the poet had to become a translator, “…not by good fortune through misprision, and if conditions were better I ought not to be translating at all” (Makaryk, McHugh. Shakespeare and the Second World War. 2012). This is a translation that Pasternak reviewed many times, in particular after the first publication in the magazine ‘Molodaia Gvardiia’ (# 5-6, 1940). In all there are about twelve variants of Pasternak’s translation.
The literary critic and Shakespearean scholar Mikhail Morozov (1897–1952) prepared a short afterword for this first book edition, which includes a bibliographical review of Hamlet’s translations in Russian. Morozov headed the cabinet of Shakespeare and Western European theatre at the All-Russian Theatrical Society.
This volume was designed by Vladimir Favorskii (1886-1964), a key figure in the Russian graphic art and book design of the 20th century. He studied in Munich at Simon Hollosy’s school, before teaching in VKhUTEMAS and becoming a woodcut master.
Bibliography
Zakharenko, 1995. # 112.
Item number
2552
Octavo. Frontispiece and 172 p., frontispiece and head- and tail-pieces by V. Favorskii.
Binding
Original publisher’s wrappers, designed by V. Favorskii.
Condition
Wrappers minimally stained or creased; rare spotting, a few leaves with pinholes (stitching holes) to gutter; otherwise a pleasant, fresh example.
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