Nov 18, 2011

"Tarkovsky and His Time" English e-Book

I have translated(and partly supplemented) 3/4 of the book.
This cover art is not the final one, but probably it will look like this.

Most quotations from Tarkovsky's diaries in this book are translated directly from recent Russian edition published in 2008.
But some of them I must have cited from Japanese edition of his diaries translated from Germany in 1993, because there are important quotations by Tarkovsky from other texts, which are absent in Russian edition.

I hope the English edition will be released from Amazon as a Kindle e-Book in mid December so that those who are interested in Tarkovsky's life and creation can get it before Christmas week and read it before 25th anniversary of Andrei Arsen'evich's death.

About Japanese edition please see this link   

Nov 3, 2011

I'm translating my own book(from Japanese to English).
The title is "Tarkovsky and His Time - Hidden Truth of Life".
It was first published as a paperback in April 4,namely, on Tarkovsky's birthday, this year,
I hope it will be published as Kindle e-Book in December.
Some places(citations) are not translation from Japanese, but English original sources,which I refered on writing the first edition. Other places are translation from Russian original sources, including recently published Diaries of Tarkovsky("Martirolog",2008) and memoir of his sister, Marina Tarkovskaya(2006).
So I would say the English edition will be more pricice from academimc point of view,though I am not a native English writer.

Below is the coverart of Japanese edition.