Охота На Снарка. Перевод Владимира Гандельсмана

Perevod Vladimira GandelʹsmanaOcharovatelʹnoe Svershenie v vosʹmi pesni͡akh Lʹi͡uisa Kėrrolla ob "Okhote na Snarka" (ili "Bred v vosʹmi paroksizmakh") v perevode Vladimira Gandelʹsmana. I ego zhe, Gandelʹsmana, ne menee ocharovatelʹnoe ėsse "Dedushkina skazka".Vot kak ėto ėsse nachinaetsi͡a:"Moĭ ded, britanskiĭ poddannyĭ, filosof i matematik, priekhal v Rossii͡u v 1934 godu. On byl iz tekh, kto vyuchil „russkiĭ khoti͡a by za to…", sochuvstvoval kommunisticheskim idei͡am i khotel uvidetʹ vsë svoimi glazami. Chʹimi zhe eshchë? V Moskve emu ustroili vstrechu s sovetskim matematikom Belmanom, kotoryĭ uzhe togda umel izvlekatʹ kvadratnyĭ korenʹ prakticheski iz nichego, a tot, pokazav vostorzhennomu turistu Moskvu i Leningrad, priglasil ego v ėkspedit͡sii͡u ot Akademii nauk na ostrov Sovnarkom (v akademicheskikh krugakh - sokrashchënno - Snark) v more Laptevykh. Belman na vsi͡akiĭ pozharnyĭ znal angliĭskiĭ".

Translated by Vladimir Gandelsman, A fascinating achievement in eight songs by Lewis Carroll about the "Hunt for the Snark" (or "Delirium in Eight Paroxysms") translated by Vladimir Gandelsman. And his equally charming essay, "A Grandfather's Tale," by Gandelsman.This is how this essay begins:"My grandfather, a British citizen, philosopher and mathematician, came to Russia in 1934. He was one of those who learned "Russian at least for that...", sympathized with communist ideas and wanted to see everything with his own eyes. Whose else? In Moscow, he was arranged to meet with the Soviet mathematician Belman, who already knew how to extract the square root from practically nothing, and he, having shown the enthusiastic tourist Moscow and Leningrad, invited him on an expedition from the Academy of Sciences to the island of Sovnarkom (in academic circles – abbreviated – Snark) in the Laptev Sea. Belman knew English just in case."