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Abstract: The article discusses the text of the translation of the play by Gabriele d’Annunzio “Francesca da Rimini” into Russian, which is a joint work of two poets of the Silver Age – Valery Bryusov and Vyacheslav Ivanov. The purpose of this study is to reveal the peculiarities of the translation strategies of the two authors regarding the intertextual relations of the original text. Francesca and Paolo are the images that world culture has often turned to. There are various interpretations of their history in literature, sculpture and painting. Gabriele d’Annunzio uses references to the texts of Dante and Boccaccio, which require the special attention of the translator. Comparative, cultural-historical and comparative-historical methods are used to analyze the trans- lations. Systematic deviations from the original are revealed, which demonstrate a clear intention: to make the image of Francesca more sublime, to bring it closer to Dante’s interpretation, which is closer to the Russian reader and viewer than that of Boccaccio. Dante, who is directly acquainted with Francesca’s family, presents her as a victim of a sudden outburst of passion, while Boccaccio describes Paolo and Francesca as traitors who have been hiding their criminal love affair for a long time. Dante’s sympathies are on the side of Francesca, Boccaccio’s sympathies are on the side of her husband. D’Annunzio, despite the references to Dante, interprets Francesca’s story in the spirit of Boccaccio, and Bryusov and Ivanov deliberately bring it closer to Dante’s in- terpretation by choosing certain lexical units and alternative translations of the song titles and medieval leg- ends mentioned in the play. The translation of allusions and reminiscences, used by the two authors in various scenes, brings the text closer to the semiotics of a chivalrous novel, a sublime love for a beautiful lady, which was urgent among the authors of the Silver Age. Into the bargain, the interpretation of the image of Francesca can be associated with specific actresses who were seen in this role by the author of the original and the au- thors of the translations. D’Annunzio created a text dedicated to Eleanor Duse, and Bryusov and Ivanov worked on a translation for V. F. Komissarzhevskaya.

About the author(s) :

Kikhney L. G.

Moscow University named after A. S. Griboyedov (Moscow, Russia)

ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0342-7125

 

Ustinovskaya A. A.

Moscow State University of Humanities  and  Economics, Moscow University named after A. S. Griboyedov (Moscow, Russia)

ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5381-0777

Publication Timeline:

Date of receipt: 17.12.2021; date of publication: 29.06.2022.

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