Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: It is not difficult to answer the question what Balcerzan’s Aygi is like. The Poznań literary and translation scholar, poet and translator has repeatedly emphasized his attachment to the person and creative work of the Chuvash poet. The portrait of Gennady Aygi that emerges from Balcerzan’s academic works, autobiographical prose and translations shows a graduate of the constructivist avant-garde, a “suprematist of the word”, an innovator of poetic abstractionism, an author of “metaphysical hieroglyphs”, a restorer of Russian free verse. But what is Aygi’s Balcerzan like? The considerations are based on the analysis and interpretation of Aygi’s Chuvash translation of Balcerzan’s poem “The beginning of thoughts: «my»” (from Granica na moment, 1969) – “Шухăш пуçламăшĕ – «эпир»” (2009). The Chuvash translation is additionally compared with Vladimir Britanishsky’ Russian translation “Nachalo mysli: «my»”.
Source: Rocznik Komparatystyczny
Author: Tamara Brzostowska-Tereszkiewicz
Language: English
Subfield: Language and Linguistics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W7225425326