Word for word : a translator's memoir of literature, politics and survival in Soviet Russia
Lungina, Lilianna2014
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A child of the 1920s, Lilianna Lungina was a Russian Jew born to privilege, spending her childhood in Germany, France, and Palestine. But when her parents moved to the USSR when she was thirteen, Lungina became witness to many of the era's greatest upheavals. Exiled during World War II, dragged to KGB headquarters to report on her cosmopolitan friends, and subjected to her new country's ruthless, systematic anti-Semitism, Lungina nonetheless carved out a remarkable career as a translator who introduced hundreds of thousands of Soviet readers to Knut Hamsun, August Strindberg and, most famously, Astrid Lindgren. This book is a memoir of her life.
Main title:
Word for word : a translator's memoir of literature, politics and survival in Soviet Russia / Lilianna Lunginaas told to Oleg Dorman ; translated from the Russian by Polly Gannon and Ast A. Moore.
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Imprint:
London : Duckworth, 2014.
Collation:
336 pages : illustrations
Notes:
Translated from the Russian.
ISBN:
9780715649220 (hbk)0715649221
Dewey class:
418'.04'092947.084920
Language:
EnglishRussian
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BRN:
900089