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Renowned Soviet Animator Yuri Norstein Turns 80

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“OF MICE AND MAGIC” IN RUSSIAN? DA!

Next year will mark the fortieth anniversary of my book Of Mice and Magic: A History of Animated Cartoons. I feel lucky that it’s still in print; that’s because it has been adopted by high school and college courses covering the history of animation. But I never could have foreseen that it would have another life in the Russian language!

This happy turn of events came about because one of the country’s preeminent animators, Fyodor Khitruk, wanted to use it as a teaching tool. Frustrated that he could not interest a Soviet publisher, he set about translating the text, word for word, himself. (He had worked as a translator during World War Two.) Khitruk died in 2012 but some colleagues never gave up on the project. A few years ago I learned that it was in the works from Penguin, my American publisher. I rescanned the photos for their use; thank goodness I had almost all of them in my files.

 

Fyodor Khitruk, a master of animation who was honored around the world

 

Now it is a reality. I’m still getting accustomed to seeing my name spelled out in Cyrillic. (I’m reminded of the story Harpo Marx tells in his autobiography about touring the Soviet Union in the 1930s and phonetically reading his name as Xapno Mapcase.)

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