„Porzućcie wszelką nadzieję, którzy tu wchodzicie”. Gieorgij Efron: 68 listów z piekła sowieckiego raju: 1940–1944. Przekład z rosyjskiego, redakcja i opracowanie naukowe Grzegorz Ojcewicz. Szczytno: Wydawnictwo Greg-Art, 2022, 436 s.

Abstract

“Abandon Hope All Ye Who Enter Here” The article reflects on a volume of letters by Georgiy Efron, a son of the poet Marina Tsvetaeva, written between 1940 and 1944. In it, I discuss the editorial and translatorial strategies adopted by Grzegorz Ojcewicz, which were designed to create a comprehensive biographical and psychological study of the author of the letters. This is evidenced by a carefully prepared philological commentary to the correspondence and the thematic articles included in the volume. I consider Efron’s letters in the context of the three-volume edition of his “Diaries”, an earlier editorial initiative by G. Ojcewicz dated 2019–2021.