Item InformationDublin CoreTitleLetter from Kornei Chukovskii to Mirra Ginsburg, two pages and envelope
DescriptionIn his letter to Mirra Ginsburg sent from Peredelkino and dated September 12, 1965, Kornei Chukovskii writes: “My dear friend, I know your name quite well. I have read in your translations Taibele and her Demon, Big and Little, The Fast Gimpel and would not hesitate to rank you as I rank such masters of translation as my beloved Saul Bellow, the translator of Gimpel the Fool. Of course, I understand how excruciating it is to translate Isaac Bashevis Singer but in your translation I can sense an unattainable original. I haven’t finished reading your translation yet but I really liked it. There is not a gram of hack-work, as often happen with American translators (Guerney, Babette Deutsch and others). You are not a craftsman, you are an artist.”
CreatorChukovskiĭ, K. I. (Korneĭ Ivanovich), 1882-1969
Ginsburg, Mirra
DateSeptember 12, 1965
Languagerus
Additional Item MetadataProvenanceGift of Barbara Frenchi, 2002
MODSKey Date1965-09-12
Type of Dateex
Place of OriginPeredelkino, Moscow, Russia
Form/Genrecorrespondence
Repository Namennc-rb
SubrepositoryBakhmeteff Archive of Russian and East European History and Culture
Language of Catalogingeng
Digital Originrd
CollectionMirra Ginsburg Papers
CitationChukovskiĭ, K. I. (Korneĭ Ivanovich), 1882-1969 and Ginsburg, Mirra, “Letter from Kornei Chukovskii to Mirra Ginsburg, two pages and envelope,” Columbia University Libraries Online Exhibitions, accessed March 18, 2025, https://exhibitions.library.columbia.edu/items/show/703. |