«Лира Новалиса» Вяч. Иванова

Vyacheslav Ivanov’s The Lyre of Novalis (Lira Novalisa) : the history of creation, transformation plan, text sources, translation problems

This article is devoted to the history of the creation and publication of “The Lyre of Novalis (Lira Novalisa)” - an unfinished book of translations by Viacheslav Ivanov. It uses a wide source study material involving archival materials from the archives of Vyacheslav Ivanov in Moscow and Rome. In the first part of this article we are talking about the history of the book. We reconstruct the idea of the poet. We consider in detail the process of working on translations. In this section we reconstruct the plans of publishing a book in the well-known publishing houses in Russia - Pantheon , Musaget , publishing house of M. and S. Sabashnikov. We used materials Ivanov’s correspondence with the editors (including unpublished materials from the collections of publishers M. and S. Sabashnikov, Pantheon and Musaget ). In the second part of this article we considered the editions, which served as a source of translations. We recreated the progress of work on the book through the midst of the manuscripts and other sources: 1st Stage (1909) and Stage 2nd (1914). We have textual analysis of manuscripts. We have analyzed the mark on autographs. The paper raises a number of questions of publishing. We have built a composition book. We talk about the choice of titles (if not match the titles of texts in the original and translation). In conclusion, we summed up the results.