Bogatyrev and Jakobson's article on folklore as a special form of creation: How is that in Russian?
https://doi.org/10.28995/2658-5294-2024-7-1-132-153
Abstract
The article is dedicated to the first-ever publication of the Russianauthored text by P.G. Bogatyrev and R.O. Jakobson, “Folklore as a Special Form of Creation”, previously only known in Russian through a translation from German. Based on both published and previously unpublished archival documents (correspondence, meeting minutes, editorial materials), the history of the unfulfilled publication of this theoretical manifesto is reconstructed, along with the discussion responses from Soviet scholars, which Yuri Sokolov planned to carry out in the journal “Artistic Folklore” in 1930.
Another part of the article is devoted to textual analysis. The work by Bogatyrev and Jakobson, initially written in Russian and later published in German, allows us to consider its widely known Russian text as a reverse translation. However, the text submitted by the authors to the Soviet journal initially differed slightly from the text intended for translation into German for publication in the Festschrift in honor of Professor Schreiner (1929). In turn, forty years later, the translation from German to Russian (1971) was made not based on this publication but on the second edition of the German text prepared for Jakobson’s collected works (1966). A comparison of the two Russian and two German versions allows us to see how changes accumulated at each stage, resulting in a series of minor but meaningful discrepancies between the original and translated Russian texts of this influential work.
Supporting agencies: We are immensely grateful to S.Yu. Neklyudov, A.B. Ippolitova, G.A. Levinton, E.E. Levkievskaya, E.S. Neklyudova, A.A. Senkina, I.O. Ermachenko, M. Dos Santos, whose thoughts, advice, bibliographic, textual and archival assistance were extremely important for the work on this publication.
About the Author
M. L. Lurie
Institute of Russian Literature (Pushkinskii Dom), Russian Academy of Sciences; European University at St. Petersburg
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Mikhail L. Lurie, Cand. of Sci. (Art Studies), associate professor,
4, Makarova Emb., Saint Petersburg, 199034;
6/1A, Gagarinskaya St., Saint Petersburg, 191187.
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