Aleksei Semenenko
List of John Benjamins publications for which Aleksei Semenenko plays a role.
Articles
2016 Smuggling the other: Rita Rait-Kovaleva’s translation of J. D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye Contexts of Russian Literary Translation, Hansen, Julie and Susanna Witt (eds.), pp. 64–80 | Article
The first Russian translation of J. D. Salinger’s novel The Catcher in the Rye (1951) was produced in 1960 by Rita Rait-Kovaleva, a renowned translator of contemporary Western literature (English, French, German) in the Soviet Union. This essay examines Rait’s translation of The Catcher in the… read more
2011 “No text is an island”: Translating Hamlet in twenty-first-century Russia Contexts, Subtexts and Pretexts: Literary translation in Eastern Europe and Russia, Baer, Brian James (ed.), pp. 249–264 | Article
This chapter discusses recent Hamlet translations in Russia in the context of the history of translation theory and canonicity. The introduction provides a short description of the history of Hamlet translations in Russia, while the main part focuses on the analysis of the translations that have… read more