Erik Mesterton
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Erik Mesterton (4 October 1903 – 10 January 2004) was a Swedish writer, literary critic and translator.
Together with poet Karin Boye he was editor for the influential culture magazine Spektrum in the 1930s (Modernist (T. S. Eliot was a favourite) and Freudian readings of literature were introduced. Mesterton lived in Gothenburg where he also did research on literature with scholars from the University of Gothenburg.[1][2][3][4]
Mesterton's translation of Eliot's The Waste Land ("Det öde landet", 1932), made in collaboration with Karin Boye, and his essays in Spektrum was widely influential on Swedish 20th century literature.[1]
Mesterton also translated from several other languages, including works by the Polish poet Zbigniew Herbert, and translated Swedish authors such as Pär Lagerkvist to English.[1] In 1967, he re-translated Hamlet to Swedish in collaboration with Erik Lindegren.[1]
Selected translations
[edit]- Akhmatova, Anna: "Åtta dikter" (översatt tillsammans med Ebba Lindqvist. I tidskriften BLM, årg. 32 (1963): s. 350–355
- Eliot, T.S.: "Det öde landet" (översatt tillsammans med Karin Boye). Först i tidskriften Spektrum, 1932: 2, s. 25–44; omtryckt i Eliot, T.S.: Dikter (Bonnier, 1942), s. 17–37
- Eliot, T.S.: Sweeney Agonistes (översatt tillsammans med Erik Lindegren) (Bonnier, 1950)
- Erdman, Nikolai: En självmördares vedermödor: komedi (Samoubijca) (otryckt översättning, tillsammans med Tord Bæckström, för Göteborgs stadsteater 1969)
- Herbert, Zbigniew: I stridsvagnens spår: dikter 1956–1965 (översatt tillsammans med Erik Lindegren) (Bonnier, 1965)
- Herbert, Zbigniew: Rapport från en belägrad stad och andra dikter (tolkning av Agneta Pleijel och Daniel Bronski under medverkan av Erik Mesterton) (Bonnier, 1985)
- Lagerkvist, Pär: The eternal smile (Det eviga leendet) (översatt tillsammans med Denys W. Harding) (1934)
- Lagerkvist, Pär: Guest of reality (Gäst hos verkligheten) (översatt tillsammans med Denys W. Harding) (1936)
- Shakespeare, William: Hamlet (översatt tillsammans med Erik Lindegren) (Bonnier, 1967)
References
[edit]- 1 2 3 4 "Erik Mesterton – Svenskt översättarlexikon". www.oversattarlexikon.se.
- ↑ Mesterton, Erik
- ↑ Major translations into English
- ↑ "Det öde landet." 1932.
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