I mentioned Boris Pasternak’s poem “Hamlet” in my November diary. A kind Russian reader passed me a sound clip of a Russian reading the poem (in Russian). The sound quality’s not great—someone drops an anvil in the last verse—but, heck, that all adds to the atmosphere. I’ve put it on my (new) “Readings” page here, with the Russian text and an English translation.
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Mr. Derbyshire is a former contributing editor of National Review.
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