Yuri Chekalin

Yuri Chekalin29.04.2020

Theology once believed that “translation” could mean direct removal to heaven of the body without intervening death. All too often in being translated, the poem loses its life. Literal translation of a poem into bare prose may help understanding, but the plain text of a literal version may not be accurate to the poem, for […]

Yuri Chekalin20.04.2020

Late inthe spring of 1886, a young man named Hasegawa Tatsunosuke, known to the Japanese literary world by his penname Futabatei Shimei,’ began to write his first novel. After he had struggled with it for many months, the first part was published in June 1887. The rest of the novel, which he called “Ukigumo” (“Drifting […]

Yuri Chekalin20.04.2020

In the old days, people enjoyed reading the magazine as a cup of excellent coffee, setting the perfect tone for the whole day and nourishing the brain’s abilities. Unfortunately, now any publication is often swallowed immediately and without any pleasure, and the meaning of the author’s message eludes the attention of readers like a dissolved […]

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