Guy Daniels
A poet and a translator, Guy Daniels (d.1989) published more than forty translations from Russian and French into English, including the Complete Plays of Vladimir Mayakovsky and works by Gogol and Stendahl. He specialized in Soviet literature of dissent and translated My Country and the World by Andrei D. Sakharov.
BOOKS BY THIS TRANSLATOR
How the Two Ivans Quarrelled and Other Russian Comic Stories
The first story in this volume, How the Two Ivans Quarrelled, is an amusing portrayal of two exceptionally close friends, the mortal insult that drives them apart, and the ensuing chaos that occurs. This is Gogol’s humour at its best, where the most irrelevant-seeming details and turns of phrase tak…
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Racine and Shakespeare
By Stendhal
This major critical work by the great French novelist reveals Stendhal’s decisive role in the literary renaissance called Romanticism. Written sixteen years before ‘The Charterhouse of Parma’, it marked the beginning of his illustrious career and established him at the forefront of the French Romant…
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