Naum Veniaminovich Naumov (real name Katsman ; [1] August 15, 1918 , Skopin , Ryazan Province - February 2, 1982 , Moscow ) is a Soviet translator and literary critic .
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Biography
He graduated from IFLI (1941), a veteran of World War II . [2] Left for the front voluntarily in July 1941. A private soldier of the 2nd motorized rifle regiment of the special purpose brigade of the NKVD of the USSR, junior sergeant of the 31st regiment of the 1st brigade of the Western front , foreman of the 54th guards regiment of the 19th guards rifle division . Twice wounded. [3]
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In 1947 he made his debut in the press with critical articles on the latest literature of France, Italy, and Latin America. In 1951 he graduated from the graduate school of the Institute of Philosophy of the USSR Academy of Sciences .
Naumov translated from Italian, Spanish and French. His translations include, in particular, articles and letters by Voltaire , short stories by Albert Camus (“Wedding in Tipas”, “Wind in Cemil”, “Letters to a German Friend”, “Silence”, “Jonah, or the Artist at Work”), Cesare Pavese 's novels “A Beautiful Summer” and “The Devil in the Hills”, Federico Garcia Lorca ’s play “The House of Bernarda Alba ”, the novels of Carlos Fuentes “The Cloudless Clarity of Clarity”, Mario Vargas Llosa “The Green House”, Augusto Roa Bastos “I, the Supreme” Miguel Delibes "road", the individual works Goncourt brothers , Louis Aragon , Vercors , Alberto M ravia , Miguel Asturias et al. Lyrics to the song "Wild Swans" (music by E. L. Prigogine).
Together with Liliana Lungin, he led a seminar on young translators of French prose. According to Lungin’s memoirs, “work united us, and if I didn’t know anything, doubted something, hesitated somewhere, he was my first adviser” [4] .
From 1946 he was married to Issa Yakovlevna Chernyak (later Ginsberg-Chernyak; 1922–2004, later Panina, wife of Dimitri Panin ), a French teacher at the Institute of Foreign Languages. Maurice Thorez . Two children, one of whom is the poet Vladimir Naumov (pseudonym Jacques Petiver, born February 23, 1950) [5] .
Notes
- ↑ Memoirs of Liliana Lungina : Nema Katzman.
- ↑ Memory of the people
- ↑ Writers of Moscow - participants of the Great Patriotic War. - M. , 1997. - p. 174.
- ↑ L. Z. Lungin. Subscript. The life of Lilianna Lungin, told by her in the film by Oleg Dorman
- ↑ K. Sapgir. The time metronome // Russian witness, April 10, 2010.