As many readers have unanimously declared, this is everyone’s favourite poem by E. A. Poe – after The Raven, of course! However, the Russian translations of which I was aware did not conve...
As I said in the previous post, I couldn’t find the translation of Prévert’s poem Cortège on the web, so I decided I would have a go at translating it. I finished one of my projects, so I ...
I don’t know if I told you but I do love the mystery of a name. I have already explored it once, but of course the problem of strange names doesn’t befall the humans only. They also befall...
http://www.therubaiyat.com/ Complete Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. I know some verses relatively well in Russian, but haven’t found them in the English translation yet. One of my favourite is this (...
Malgré ma barbe, je ne m’appelle pas Karl Marx! – Despite my beard, my name isn’t Karl Marx! (César) Thanks for reading and visiting! You can connect with me on Google+ @ https://plu...
Blessed be the times when medieval monks simply ‘continued’ the chronicles and annalles that had been started by other monks. Today the family of the monk who started the chronicle could v...
Dragostea din Tei song has a very interesting example of translating the word "haiduc". It can be Robin Hood but it can be an outlaw, too....
The beauty of Prevert's saying J'aime mieux tes levres que mes livres is sadly lost in the English translation... but perhaps Man Ray's famous Kiss rayograph renders the meaning...