Стихотворения П. Верлена в переводе В. Брюсова

This volume brings together two of the great poets of European Symbolism: Paul Verlaine, the French master of musical verse and aching emotion, and Valery Bryusov, his Russian counterpart who translated not merely the words but the very soul of the original. Bryusov, the architect of Russian Symbolism, selected poems from a dozen of Verlaine's collections, rendering them into Russian with the ear of a poet who understood that translation is its own creative act. The book includes a critical-biographical essay that situates Verlaine within the turbulent landscape of late French poetry and a bibliography for the serious reader. What emerges is a window into the melancholic beauty that made Verlaine legendary: his explorations of love, despair, alcohol, and the fragile transparency of ordinary life. These translations have long been considered among the finest Russian versions of French poetry, a meeting of two traditions in one indispensable volume.