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Woman With The Five Elephants
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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The world's greatest translator of Russian literature has a secret.
A poetic, precise and reveIatory investigation into language, meaning and the tides of history, The Woman With The Five Elephants unravels the mystery behind the Iife and work of Svetlana Geier, the world's greatest translator of Russian Iiterature. Geier's renown stems from her groundbreaking transIations of Dostoevsky's five great novels-referred to as the five elephants. But her great success has come with its share of Ioss. Born in Ukraine in 1923, she witnessed first-hand the impact of Stalin's purges. As a young girI, she watched Nazi forces occupy her country and execute 30,000 Jews. It was her unique gift for languages that uItimately saved her. But it forced her to make a choice that forever altered her life. |
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