Showing papers in "The Slavonic and East European Review in 1995"

The Slavonic 'standard' of modern Hebrew

Abstract: L'A. examine les formes et les significations slavoniques qui existent en hebreu moderne. Hebreu et slavon sont historiquement lies et l'on trouve en hebreu des emprunts au slavon dans le lexique, dans certains elements du discours et dans la formation des mots par affixation

The french connexion : Nabokov and Alfred de Musset : ideas and practices of translation

Abstract: THE focus of attention here is Nabokov's translation of Alfred de Musset's dramatic lyric, La Nuit de decembre. The specific instance of an early poetic translation is taken as a starting point for an account of Nabokov's relationship to this French Romantic poet, and beyond that for an examination of the larger context of the relationship that Nabokov's translations have to the main body of his work, and the bearing this relationship has on the vexed question of the primacy of form or feeling, artifice or reality, in his creative writing. The discipline and constraint of translation was one way in which the young Nabokov chose to interact with other writers. He related to their experience and related their telling of it to his reading of others. Themes, imagery, turns of phrase which he encountered in a writer he re-used in his own early verse and transferred to renderings he made of other poets. What merits attention in the light of Nabokov's later much advertised profession of privacy and the current critical concern to place him at the cross-roads of modernism and post-modernism, is that his first allegiance was to the romantics and neo-romantics, that is to artists whose emotions were more often than not on open public display and whose colourful lives had equal prominence alongside their works. Such a writer was Musset. His was the 'mask' that Nabokov first adopted to tell of emotions and experiences which touched him most nearly and which were to remain the mainspring of his creative activity: the memory of his first love, the death of his father and the loss of Russia. It only remains to add the constraint on writing in his native

Romanian Vowel Nasalization and the Palatal Nasal

Abstract: Dans les langues romanes, la nasalisation a exerce une considerable influence sur le modele d'evolution des voyelles. L'A. s'interesse a un certain type de contexte nasalisant, celui ou apparait la nasale palatale /n + j/