Chapter The Existential byt' in the Translations of I.A. Bunin's The Gentleman from San Francisco into English and Japanese

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Florence Firenze University Press 2023
• Series: Biblioteca di Studi Slavistici
• Subjects: English translation; existential expressions; Ivan Bunin's The Gentleman from San Francisco; Japanese translation; the verb byt'; thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism
• Online Access: Open Access: DOAB: description of the publication; Open Access: DOAB, download the publication
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (11 p.)
• ISBN: 979-12-215-0238-1.08; 9791221502381
• Access: Open Access

This article deals with the translations of a Bunin's story The Gentleman from San Francisco into Japanese and English. Japanese translations of the phrase with the existential verb byt' reflect a different understanding of death. A comparison of the original text with the translations also helps us understand the image of the gentleman's being, bytie, which changes as the story develops.