Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Russian term or phrase:
штрих памяти
English translation:
memory snapshot
Added to glossary by
Olga Sinitsyna
Oct 23, 2014 17:53
9 yrs ago
Russian term
United Kingdom
штрих памяти
Russian to English
Art/Literary
Art, Arts & Crafts, Painting
It occurs, in inverted commas, in an article about a Leningrad/St Petersburg artist, Nikolay Volodimirov, who fought in the Siege of Leningrad (X is the owner's name deleted by me):
Николая Володимирова полуживого увезли отсюда в госпиталь в Ленинград. И в госпитале он сделал первые наброски к будущей картине о «Невском пятачке», назвав ее «На переправе». Он напишет ее дважды – в 1941-м, после госпиталя, и четверть века спустя, в 1964-м году. У (X) хранятся два этюда ко второму варианту картины: раненый боец, напряженно вглядывающийся вдаль, и солдат с веслом, отталкивающий от берега лодку. Два этюда – два ***«штриха памяти»*** участника тех легендарных боев.
The closest that I have come to a possible meaning is in Казанский Медик (http://kgmu.kcn.ru/sites/default/files/u17/docs/10_09-01km.p... where there is a штрих памяти commemorating the 125th anniversary of someone's birth. I have also come across one or two other similar references on google.ru. Can anyone suggest a suitable phrase? As it appears in inverted commas, I presume that it is being used in an unusual way. Thank you in advance for any thoughts on this.
Николая Володимирова полуживого увезли отсюда в госпиталь в Ленинград. И в госпитале он сделал первые наброски к будущей картине о «Невском пятачке», назвав ее «На переправе». Он напишет ее дважды – в 1941-м, после госпиталя, и четверть века спустя, в 1964-м году. У (X) хранятся два этюда ко второму варианту картины: раненый боец, напряженно вглядывающийся вдаль, и солдат с веслом, отталкивающий от берега лодку. Два этюда – два ***«штриха памяти»*** участника тех легендарных боев.
The closest that I have come to a possible meaning is in Казанский Медик (http://kgmu.kcn.ru/sites/default/files/u17/docs/10_09-01km.p... where there is a штрих памяти commemorating the 125th anniversary of someone's birth. I have also come across one or two other similar references on google.ru. Can anyone suggest a suitable phrase? As it appears in inverted commas, I presume that it is being used in an unusual way. Thank you in advance for any thoughts on this.
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References
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Valentina Obuhova
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Change log
Nov 5, 2014 11:15: Olga Sinitsyna Created KOG entry
Proposed translations
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Olga Sinitsyna
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
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Russian Federation
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Native in: Russian (Variant: Standard-Russia)
Works in: English to Russian, Russian to English, English
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memory snapshot
just another possible option (he sketched what was imprinted on his mind)
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The Misha
: Snapshot, that's what I'd call it too.
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Thank you The Misha, much appreciated
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Natalia Volkova
: No way! Not for this context, please! Though it is put in an indirect way, comparing a painting to a photograph is implicated here! This will sounds insulting to any painter/artist! All right, a different historical period is not the case here.
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Actually, in the dictionary this word (dating back to 1890) means "a casual photograph made typically by an amateur with a small handheld camera; an impression or view of something brief or transitory" http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/snapshot
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Comment: "Thank you very much."
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Pavel Altukhov
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flash of memory
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Natalia Volkova
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brushstrokes of memories/Persistence of Memory
for instance, in Italian: pennellate di ricordi
https://www.flickr.com/photos/95288206@N00/2388595339/
or might be also something like Persistence of memory, like Salvador Dali's "The Persistence of Memory"?
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also flashbacks,
https://www.flickr.com/photos/95288206@N00/2388595339/
or might be also something like Persistence of memory, like Salvador Dali's "The Persistence of Memory"?
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also flashbacks,
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Alexandra Schneeuhr
: "Brushstrokes of memory" (with memory in sg.) should work fine in this context
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Thank you, Aleksandra. It`s so nice of you!
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P.L.F. Persio
: well done, Natalia!
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Thank you, very much!
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The Misha
: I don't think memory has any brushstrokes in English, Natalia. You simply can't drag a metaphor directly from one language into another, not in most cases anyway.
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Thank you for your opinion, Misha. You are surely right saying that we should be careful trying to translate metaphors. And there are no "ready-made" solutions for that. BTW, what do you think about my other versions? Anyway, thanks for reading all this!
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Leniana Koroleva
: Brushstrokes-instantly feels the best suitable in this context;
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Thank you, Leniana. This is nothing more but my suggestion. ABSOLUTELY perfect solutions are not possible in such cases, I think.
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Donald Jacobson
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Works in: German to English, Russian to English, Swedish to English
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memory trace
... not an uncommon English expression which contains a reference to sketching or tracing.
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Note added at 1 day42 mins (2014-10-24 18:36:21 GMT)
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If it is just a partial memory, this could be referred to as snippet of memory.
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Note added at 1 day42 mins (2014-10-24 18:36:21 GMT)
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If it is just a partial memory, this could be referred to as snippet of memory.
Reference comments
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Valentina Obuhova
Latvia
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Possible helpful comment
I believe this is a metaphor evoking the image of drawing. Hence the inverted commas. The literal translation would be 'strokes of memory'. (I am hardly in a position to suggest a suitable translation as English is not my native language.)
I hope this helps.
I hope this helps.
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Alexandra Schneeuhr
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P.L.F. Persio
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Natalia Volkova
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Discussion
From the whole text I am increasingly convinced that the author has taken the phrase from the Twitter/Facebook context and applied it to a picture instead (hence the inverted commas). The expression may be relatively new, but it does seem to be accepted in the Tw/FB context; I think that it is if anything a coincidence that the word 'shtrikh' comes in. In the roughly 10,000 words that I have translated so far, in a catalogue for an artist exhibition, it has not appeared anywhere else. The idea of 'snapshot' fits in far better, as this is just an 'etyud', not a painting.