{"product_id":"the-man-who-brought-brodsky-into-english-conversations-with-george-l-kline-paperback","title":"The Man Who Brought Brodsky Into English: Conversations with George L. Kline - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCynthia L. Haven\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A brilliant story of the three-decade-long collaboration of Joseph Brodsky and his loyal translator. Cynthia Haven draws a vivid portrait of George Kline--an intellectual, a friend, a war hero. These never-before-told stories, collected and painstakingly edited by Haven, fill in the glaring lacunae in Brodsky studies.\" --Yuri Leving, author of \u003ci\u003eIosif Brodsky v Rime\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrodsky's poetic career in the West was launched when\u003cem\u003e Joseph Brodsky: Selected Poems \u003c\/em\u003ewas published in 1973. Its translator was a scholar and war hero, George L. Kline. This is the story of that friendship and collaboration, from its beginnings in 1960s Leningrad and concluding with the Nobel poet's death in 1996.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKline translated more of Brodsky's poems than any other single person, with the exception of Brodsky himself. The Bryn Mawr philosophy professor and Slavic scholar was a modest and retiring man, but on occasion he could be as forthright and adamant as Brodsky himself. \"Akhmatova discovered Brodsky for Russia, but I discovered him for the West,\" he claimed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKline's interviews with author Cynthia L. Haven before his death in 2014 include a description of his first encounter with Brodsky, the KGB interrogations triggered by their friendship, Brodsky's emigration, and the camaraderie and conflict over translation. When Kline called Brodsky in London to congratulate him for the Nobel, the grateful poet responded, \"And congratulations to you, too, George!\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCynthia L. Haven\u003c\/strong\u003e is a National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholar and author of 2018's \u003cem\u003eEvolution of Desire: A Life of René Girard, \u003c\/em\u003ethe first-ever biography of the French theorist. She has been a Milena Jesenská Journalism Fellow with the Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen in Vienna, as well as a visiting writer and scholar at Stanford's Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages, and a Voegelin Fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution. Her \u003cem\u003eJoseph Brodsky: Conversations\u003c\/em\u003e was published in 2003. Her\u003cem\u003e\"Spirit of the Place\" Czeslaw Milosz in California \u003c\/em\u003eis forthcoming. She has written for \u003cem\u003eThe Times Literary Supplement\u003c\/em\u003e, and has also contributed to \u003cem\u003eThe New York Times Book Review, The Nation, The Wall Street Journal, The Virginia Quarterly Review, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, \u003c\/em\u003e and others. Her work has appeared in Russia's \u003cem\u003eZvezda\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eColta\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 216\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.46 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 16, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48182002745592,"sku":"9781644695142","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0698\/5629\/7208\/files\/B8kt17AC_Y9781644695142.webp?v=1783546825","url":"https:\/\/barneysbooksellers.com\/products\/the-man-who-brought-brodsky-into-english-conversations-with-george-l-kline-paperback","provider":"Barney's Book Sellers","version":"1.0","type":"link"}