Russian Amarkord. I remember. Solonovich E.M., Visel M.

from the Southern Primorsky Town of the thirties - to the center of the metropolitan intellectual and creative life; This is the path of not only the hero of the famous Italian film, but also the outstanding translator and poet Evgeny Solonovich.

Having finished in the fifties, he immediately took up the classics - Dante, Petrarch - and, quickly becoming “the main in Italian poetry” In Russia, he still remains him.

the student of the Great-Ilya Golenishchev-Kutuzov and Sergey Shervsky-he became a teacher himself: a lot of translators came out of his seminar at the Literary Institute; One of them is Mikhail Visel, the co -author of this book.

in conversations with the younger colleague Solonovich speaks of the difficulties and subtleties of the translation, recalls childhood and evacuation, the first steps in the translation of the field, the daily life of this “Zadorny workshop” and Trips to Italy, work with the texts of Montale, Umberto Saba and Giuseppe Bellie, his own poems - and everything that happened to him and the country over the nine decades of his life.