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- | ''(transcript)'' | + | Dear Walter,<br> |
+ | <para/>I was thinking about our conversations about | ||
+ | translation, about how a poem is never really translated | ||
+ | because the sounds, the essence of the poem change when the | ||
+ | language changes. So the best that can be is a new poem | ||
+ | built on the bones of the old. I am thinking about | ||
+ | Pushkin. Of course, you are thinking, Stas thinks about | ||
+ | Pushkin all the time. But if that is true, that | ||
+ | translation of a poem makes a different, maybe equally | ||
+ | beautiful but still different poem, then there are few | ||
+ | people in the world today who really love and appreciate | ||
+ | Pushkin. For there are very few Russians. Perhaps a few | ||
+ | thousand? And of those, how many have pieces of Pushkin by | ||
+ | heart? | ||
+ | <para/>I am a man on an island, old friend, a tiny island, | ||
+ | and the water is rising. The poems and plays of Pushkin, | ||
+ | the way we would picnic in the winter, drinking sweet sweet | ||
+ | tea from a glass, little things that are very dear to me, | ||
+ | they are all disappearing. "Ecstacy is a glass of tea and | ||
+ | a piece of sugar in the mouth," Pushkin says. But it is | ||
+ | not the same in exile. I do not want to be the last | ||
+ | Russian. | ||
+ | <para/>You know it is easy to ignore it, when you go out in | ||
+ | the streets of Washington D.C. and everything seems so | ||
+ | normal. You go into the diner and you get your bacon and | ||
+ | eggs and coffee in those heavy ceramic coffee cups you | ||
+ | Americans all love. But your culture is rooted in Europe | ||
+ | old friend. The Mona Lisa is gone. Michelangelo's David | ||
+ | is also gone. Berlin is not a city anymore, at least not | ||
+ | for us. | ||
+ | <para/>I am sorry old friend. Soon, I am afraid, they will | ||
+ | be here, and America will shrink. You may survive, to run | ||
+ | ahead of them the way I did. Behind you, all you hold dear | ||
+ | will be destroyed. Ahead of us is death, at best, and at | ||
+ | worst we will become monsters with no memory of Pushkin or | ||
+ | Goethe or those beautiful German military strategists you | ||
+ | have so carefully translated. | ||
+ | <para/>I am a coward. But I will not be the last Russian. | ||
+ | And I will not be a monster. | ||
+ | <para/>Good bye.<br> | ||
+ | Sincerely, | ||
+ | Stanislaw Ivanovich Ozerov | ||
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