Two farewell elegies by Wen Yido in Russian translation: comparative analysis

Zhang Huanyu

The outstanding Chinese poet Wen Yiduo (1899-1946) created in his works a world of high emotions, filled with sunlight, free winds, multicolored native landscapes, motifs of passing time, sorrow and hope. This article is devoted to the Russian translations of his two farewell elegies «Maybe» and «Forget about her», made by the famous orientalist G.B.Yaroslavtsev (1930-2004).

Keywords:Wen Yiduo, Chinese poetry, translation, theory of the «Three beauties», G.B.Yaroslavtsev.