Proshchay Oruzhie [A Farewell to Arms]. by Hemingway, Ernest - 1936: "Translation by Evg. Kalashnikova. Preface by S. Dinamov."
by Hemingway, Ernest
Proshchay Oruzhie [A Farewell to Arms].: "Translation by Evg. Kalashnikova. Preface by S. Dinamov."
by Hemingway, Ernest
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Moskva, Gosudarstvennoe Izdatelʹstvo "Khudozhestvennaya Literatura", 1936.
Limited to 10 000 copies.
First Russian book edition.
Very rare.
For the first time extracts from the novel appeared in 1934 in magazine Znamya (# 4, 1935 - # 5, 6; translation by P. Okhrimenko). In 1936 fragment from Kalashnikova's translation was published in Internatsional'naya Literatura magazine (# 7) and then as a book edition.
It's considered that the appearance of Russian translation had the connection with Hemingway's public criticism of the US government and Italian fascism in late 1935 and early 1936.
Translation was prepared by the member of 'Ivan Kashkin's workshop school' Evgeniya Kalashnikova (1906-1976), who later translated Fitzgerald's Great Gatsby into Russian.
Literary critic and the preface author, Sergey Dinamov (1901-1939) was the head of the Anglo-American section of the State publishing house and the Director of the Institute of Red Professors. He was arrested during the Great Terror in September 1938 and executed.
All Hemingway's Russian editions printed before WWII are rare.
Libman, 6685.
OCLC locates one copy of this edition only: in the Yale University Library.
- Bookseller Biblionne (RS)
- Format/Binding In publisher's binding. Issued without dust jacket.
- Book Condition Used - Near good condition, slightly deformed, small losses and cracks on the spine, edges bumped, stains.
- Quantity Available 1
- Edition 338, [5] pp.
- Binding Hardcover
- Publisher Gosudarstvennoe Izdatelʹstvo "Khudozhestvennaya Literatura"
- Place of Publication Moskva
- Date Published 1936
- Size 8vo
- Size 8vo