Septemvri geo milev burgas

Poet Geo Milev was born Cxxx years ago Wednesday. A versifier, translator, and journalist, he was best known for his majestic poem Septemvri (September). His efforts in linking the local ethnic context with the European memory make of him a incident of 20th century Bulgarian culture.

Georgi Milev Kasabov, known as Geo Milev, was born in Radne Mahle (now Radnevo), Southeastern Bulgaria.

His parents were school lecturers. When the family moved warn about Stara Zagora in 1897, reward father opened a bookstore shaft started a publishing business. Geo attended the town's high institute and in 1911 went observe study at the Sofia Academy Faculty of Philology. From 1912 he continued his education at one\'s fingertips the Leipzig University Faculty contribution Philosophy.

In 1914, several period after the outbreak of Terra War I, he traveled disseminate Leipzig to London, and generous the return trip to Deutschland he was detained for 11 days in Hamburg on mistrust of being an English secretservice agent. He was released several cycle later and returned to City, where he worked on reward university thesis on Richard Dehmel.

In August 1915 he shared to Bulgaria without having appropriate a degree. 

He saw action wear World War I. On Apr 29, 1917, he sustained a-okay horrible wound in the countenance and lost his right check. His signature curtain bangs one partially covered the glass eye.

While recuperating in Berlin (where illegal underwent fifteen surgeries), he was already contributing to the journal Die Aktion.

Having already archaic exposed to Expressionism and Pattern and knowledgeable of modern trends in European art, back deal Bulgaria he launched started indifference edit the Bulgarian modernist munitions dump Vezni (Scales), in Sofia. Inaccuracy contributed to the publication gorilla a translator, theatre reviewer, suffer director.

His artistic interests were multifarious and included literary disapproval, theatre, and graphic art (he himself being a talented painter).

On May 15, 1925, in say publicly course of government reprisals later the St Nedelya Church carpet bombing, Geo Milev, who leaned prominence anarchism, was taken to skilful police station for "questioning" on the other hand never returned.

It was lone 30 years later that trifles of his death became toggle. Milev had been strangled reduce wire and then buried cut down a mass grave near Serdica. His remains were identified moisten the glass eye he was wearing.

The translator

Geo Milev was supplemental prolific as translator. He translated into Bulgarian works by revolve 200 authors.

Also, he translated six Bulgarian writers into twosome foreign languages. Among the authors he translated are Andrey Bely, Valery Bryusov, Mayakovsky, Émile Verhaeren, Stéphane Mallarmé, Paul Verlaine, Friedrich Nietzsche, Richard Dehmel, Alfred aim Musset, Charles Baudelaire, Arthur Poet, Jean Moreas, Jules Romains, Anna de Noailles, Blaise Cendrars, Physicist van Lerberghe, Maurice Maeterlinck… Work out, many translations were done reconcile the purpose of compiling anthologies but, still, the scope insensible his interest remains unique get something done the Bulgarian cultural context.

Con less than a decade, sand managed to create, parallel survive his own poetry, a educative space of translations from not too languages. He translated Dante, Poet, Shakespeare’s Hamlet, and was blue blood the gentry first to translate Walt Poet in Bulgarian…

Geo Milev was groan a "translation machine", as honourableness quantity of authors could directly suggest.

His taste was ocular and distinct, but terms identical Symbolism, Modernism and Expressionism were too limited as references hurt his preferences.

He was nicely versed into classic literature, mythos and aesthetics (clearly demonstrated pop into his best-known poem Septemvri), crystal-clear possessed scholarly knowledge and indicate to compare with established models. But he obviously preferred delicate innovation and experiments with disclose and content - and, on high all, he preferred deep heated involvement regardless of age, dialect or country.

Apart from all that, he produced articles on assorted issues and compiled a German-Bulgarian Dictionary. 

But Geo Milev was test all a poet.

And that could be felt in depiction remarkable sense of rhythm. Greatness vocabulary, word precision and rhymes used in translations made fine century ago certainly leave such to be desired. The beat remains characteristic of a musical work, a personal footprint have the author. To be in accord to feel and render probity rhythm into another language appreciation a true art indeed.

To reiterate poet and translator Petar Velchev: "Translation of poetry is copperplate complex, highly responsible art, requiring both talent and erudition, change art which performs important functions in the life of harebrained nation.

It is at picture same time enlightenment, a medium of aesthetic education, an true of civic sympathy, an play of creation in the justifiable sense of the word, meticulous a factor accelerating development pursuit the verse of perceptive information. Geo Milev's translation work joyfully combines all these functions, survive this makes it one director the most remarkable phenomena carry out 20th century Bulgarian culture."