The poem ‘Our language’ by Alexei Mateevici in Russian version

The translation of artistic works, especially poetry, has always caused many difficulties and even contradictions. The difficulties are of different nature: factual, cultural, semantic, syntactic, expressive, etc. Contradictory are the ways of translating the poetic work, that eternal dilemma of the translator: accuracy or expressiveness, truth or metaphor, precision or beauty? In the present commentary we are going to analyse how a work by Alexeii Mateevici is translated into a Russian poetic, but also civic version, of undeniable importance for our people, the poem “Our Language” by Alexeii Mateevici in Russian.