High Art

Korney Ivanovich Chukovsky is best known to readers as a classic of children's literature. Several generations have grown up on his fairy tales, and to this day he remains one of the most published children's writers in Russia. Meanwhile, the beloved author of "Moidoor" and "The Fly-Tsokotukha" was also a brilliant critic, memoirist, translator, literary scholar, and linguist. Chukovsky the translator gifted the Russian reader a whole library of works of English and American literature, Chukovsky the memoirist - a magnificent gallery of portraits of contemporaries, Chukovsky the researcher - wonderful books on the Russian language and literature, interesting not only to specialists but also to the widest audience, since "scientific understanding," as Chukovsky believed, does not always correlate with "dense verbal thickets." In the book "Alive as Life," the author fascinatingly describes what a complex, amazing, wisely arranged, and self-regulating system the Russian language is. The book "From Two to Five" is dedicated to children's word creation, its laws and secrets, which everyone who intends to write for children must know. "High Art" introduces the reader to the problems of artistic translation, which the author believed is not just a "craft," but a complex inspired creativity.