![]() ![]() “Suddenly the membrane separating Tarkovsky’s world from mine has become finer, as if I can touch more directly something he experienced so privately, so mutely.”īird completed a draft of his Russian translation of Andrei Tarkovsky in January, while receiving his first chemotherapy infusion. Just days before his death, he completed work toward a volume of his collected essays in Russian, which will be published in Russia in the series Sovremennaia Rusistika. “Not just the deleterious physical effects, but the emotional and spiritual ones, the loss of systems within which my life has been constructed, the ubiquity of fear. “But reading Tarkovsky’s diary over his final year, I recognise much of what he experienced,” Bird wrote. ![]() In an essay published shortly after his death, Bird reflected on his struggle with cancer-a disease that also claimed Tarkovsky’s life in 1986, when the filmmaker was 54. Best known is his 2008 monograph Andrei Tarkovsky: Elements of Cinema, which has been translated into Chinese, Farsi and Portuguese, and will be published in Russian later in 2020 using Bird’s own translation. “As a legendary teacher and mentor, he also will be sorely missed.”īird was a leading authority on the director Andrei Tarkovsky, about whom he wrote two books. “Robert’s outstanding biographical and critical work made a lasting impression on the fields of Russian literature, cinema and intellectual history,” said Anne Walters Robertson, dean of the Division of the Humanities and the Claire Dux Swift Distinguished Service Professor of Music. His scholarship encompassed the global and local he was equally at home in Moscow and Chicago. He was 50.Ī prolific author and lecturer, Bird’s interest in Russia ranged from its literary giants and artists, to the country’s aesthetics, socialism and revolution. 7 in Chicago after a nine-month battle with colon cancer. ![]() Robert James Douglas Bird-an expert on Russian literature, film and modernism-died Sept. ![]()
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