Issue:

№7 2019

УДК / UDK: 82-14
DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22455/2541-7894-2019-7-167-185

Author: Andrei V. Bronnikov
About the author:

Andrei V. Bronnikov (poet and translator, Amsterdam, Netherlands)

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Abstract:

This work presents to the Russian reader a translation of Ezra Pound’s poems devoted to Olga Rudge. The poems written in 1962–1972 first appeared in the 2002 collection Canti Postumi (ed. Massimo Bacigalupo), and later were published by Carcanet publishing house (Posthumous Cantos). The paper contains commentaries of texts and discusses a would-be ending to the unfinished poem The Cantos of Ezra Pound. A conjecture is made that the poem’s ending could have been written in the style of a lyrical poetic work. Such an ending could have revealed new allusions and meanings of the modernist epic and could help to understand The Cantos as a private diary reflecting the existential experience of the 20th-century man. The paper contains a biographical sketch of Olga Rudge. The author expresses his gratitude to Mary de Rakewiltz for her hospitality and conversations on life and work of her parents, and to the Italian poet, translator, and scholar Massimo Bacigalupo for his advice. The presented translation is the first attempt to render into Russian the texts that introduce the reader to the world of Pound in his late years and his relationship with Olga Rudge. The publication rights have been cleared with the Carcanet publishing company. The author and the editorial board express their sincere gratitude to the poet and publisher Michael Schmidt for his support.

Keywords: Ezra Pound, Olga Rudge, Anglo-American modernism, Posthumous Cantos.
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