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and others. Many famous poets, translators and writers have noted that Levik translations are characterized by high culture, poetry and precision in the transmission of the original.К 90-летию со дня рождения художника и переводчика Вильгельма Вениаминовича Левика
публикация в журнале «Компьютерная хроника», — 1997, № 6, С. 131—166. He wrote a number of theoretical works, which are devoted to how the problems of literary translation and the creativity of major European poets.

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Вильгельм Вениаминович Левик - (живопись, статьи, поэзия, фотоархив)
{{DEFAULTSORT:Levick, Wilhelm 1907 births 1982 deaths Soviet translators 20th-century Russian translators Recipients of the Order of Friendship of Peoples English–Russian translators French–Russian translators Translators from German Translators from Polish Translators of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Translators of William Shakespeare