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UDC 821.161.1-2
DOI 10.20339/PhS.2-26.114
Zhatkin Dmitry N.,
Doctor of Philology, Professor,
Head of the Translation and Translation Studies Department
Penza State Technological University
e-mail: ivb40@yandex.ru
Serdechnaia Vera V.,
Doctor of Philology, Associate Professor of the Foreign Literature and
Comparative Cultural Studies Department
Kuban State University
e-mail: rintra@yandex.ru
The article is devoted to the introduction into scientific circulation and historical-literary understanding of the unpublished work of Vasily Mikhailovich Mikheyev (1859–1908) — the dramatic fantasy “Milton” (1884), which is a striking episode in the Russian creative reception John Milton. Mikheyev is known as a poet, playwright and prose writer of the realistic trend, who turned to Siberian themes, while his writings related to the reception of Western European literature, are perceived as peripheral to his legacy and therefore forgotten and, to a large extent, unpublished. Mikheyev’s dramatic fantasy, written in white iambic pentameter, is a fragmentary poetic presentation of Milton’s biography from 1643 (when his young wife leaves him) to 1666 (when the blind poet dictates the lines of “Paradise Lost” to his daughters). Mikheyev includes one of Satan’s monologues from “Paradise Lost” in his own translation, which is quite accurate and independent: this small translated fragment demonstrates Mikheyev’s potential as a translator. “Milton”, like Mikheyev’s other dramatic fantasies, is an attempt at a realistic rethinking of the genre that was popular in Russian literature during the Romantic era.
Keywords: V.M. Mikheyev, dramatic fantasy, Russian Milton, “Paradise Lost”, romanticism, realism, reception, tradition
This research was funded by a grant from the Russian Science Foundation (RSF, project No. 25-18-00010)
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