Remembering childhood, drawn by Sergey Barkhin

Publisher: Twins (Bliznetsy)
Series: The French
Publish date: 2019
Language: Russian
Translation: Sergey Bobrov
Dimensions: 50x35 cm
Edition: 22 copies

The classic of the medieval epic - “The Song of Roland”.

The illustrations accompany a free verse arrangement by Sergei Bobrov, a translator, literary critic, poet, and futurist. This adapted translation was published only once, in 1943, and it was the one that Barkhin read as a child. Recalling his childhood, Sergey Barkhin shows the scenes of the heroic narrative in playful dynamics, which again, here and now, bring the events of the poem to life.

The author's project “The French” is published in a small edition in the silkscreen printing technique. The very fact of the appearance of the series deserves special attention since it goes beyond the typical tasks of modern book publishing. S. M. Barkhin has been illustrating French poets for a long time and reveals in a new way the direction in French art of the early twentieth century “livre d'artiste” (“the artist's book”), which received independent development in book illustration of the Soviet and post-Soviet period.