High Art

Kornei Chukovsky (1882–1969) — a writer, translator, and literary scholar, the author of the famous children's tales «Doctor Aybolit», «Moidodyr», «Barmaley». The book «High Art» — is an engaging work dedicated to the art of literary translation, where theory combines with practical examples. The author analyzes translations of classics — from Shakespeare to Byron, from Swift to Wilde, paying attention to the accuracy of meaning, style, rhythm, and cultural peculiarities of the text. Translation here is revealed as a creative process, in which the translator becomes a co-author of the original.