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September 21st, 2024

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"I am writing a historical novel"

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(reposting from 2015)

"...Однажды один московский критический журнал попросил нескольких литераторов написать о том, для чего мы пишем и почему мы пишем. Так как я не умею писать статьи и не очень люблю анализировать себя самого, я отказался. Остальные написали очень серьезные исследования собственного творчества. А я написал стихотворение и послал в журнал. Его тогда не напечатали, но зато потом получилась песня..."

(Б.Окуджава)

"...One time, a Moscow literary analysis journal asked several writers to write about the purpose for which we write and why we write. Because I can't write articles and don't particularly like analysing myself, I declined. Others wrote very serious analyses of their own creative process. And I wrote a poem and sent it to the journal. The poem wasn't printed at the time, but later, it became a song..."
(B. Okudjava)




Lyrics and translation:

В склянке темного стекла
Из-под импортного пива
Роза красная цвела
Гордо и неторопливо.

In a vessel made of dark glass
Which was an empty bottle of imported beer
A red rose bloomed
Proudly and unhurriedly.

Исторический роман
   Сочинял я понемногу,
   Пробиваясь, как в туман,
   От пролога к эпилогу.

I was slowly composing
A historical novel,
Forcing my way, as if through a fog,
From a prologue to the epilogue.
 
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