TY - JOUR
TI - Brodsky’s Wet Dreams: (More than) Sexuality in Self-Translation
AU - Berlina, Alexandra
TI - Brodsky’s Wet Dreams: (More than) Sexuality in Self-Translation
AB - 
	Brodsky’s poems tend to become more sexually explicit in self-translation from Russian into English than in their original versions. The greater permissiveness of the target culture and the opportunities presented by English vocabularly played a role in this development – however, the present article argues that in Brodsky’s writing, and particularly in his self-translations, sexual imagery is often a means to meditate on such topics as the nature of time and human consciousness. The Brodskian manner of connecting sexuality and philosophy has more precedents in Anglophone than Russophone culture; moreover, word play being a vehicle of thinking for Brodsky, such expressions as “wet dreams” prompted him to develop complex compositions “consisting of love, filthy dreams, fear of death, ashes” and time.
VL - 2015
IS - Issue 30 – Brodski
PY - 2015
SN - 1425-6851
C1 - 1689-1864
SP - 33
EP - 44
DO - 10.4467/16891864PC.15.002.4440
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/przekladaniec/article/mokre-sny-brodskiego-seksualnosc-i-nie-tylko-w-autoprzekladzie
KW - Brodsky
KW - self-translation
KW - sexuality
KW - poetry translation