Dialogue with Time
Sergei Yursky and Lera Auerbach read Auerbach’s poems from Steps into Eternity: twenty-four brief encounters between voice, memory, theatre, and time.
A Meeting of Two Voices
Dialogue with Time is not simply a recording of poems. It is a chamber theatre of listening: the poet’s voice and the actor’s voice meet across distance, memory, irony, tenderness, and mortality.
Sergei Yursky, one of the great Russian-speaking performers of the stage and screen, brings to these poems the precision of an actor, the gravity of a literary artist, and the unmistakable authority of someone who understood the spoken word as a dramatic event.
The result is intimate and architectural: twenty-four readings that form a cycle, each short enough to be entered as a fragment, yet together creating a larger meditation on time.
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Sergei Yursky
Sergei Yursky
Sergei Yursky was one of the defining Russian-speaking actors of his generation: a stage and film actor, theatre director, screenwriter, writer, and master of literary performance.
His voice carried the discipline of theatre and the freedom of literature. In Dialogue with Time, that voice enters Auerbach’s poems not as illustration, but as interpretation — turning each poem into a small dramatic chamber.
“The spoken poem is not a document of the poem. It is the poem entering time.”
Poetry as Theatre
The readings reveal the dramatic pulse inside Auerbach’s poems: irony, solitude, tenderness, and metaphysical pressure.
A Cycle of 24
The playlist’s twenty-four-part form echoes Auerbach’s recurring artistic interest in cycles, preludes, and miniature architectures.
Voice and Memory
The project preserves not only texts, but an encounter: poet and actor speaking across time.
About the Source
Steps into Eternity belongs to Lera Auerbach’s Russian literary world, where poetry often behaves like music: compressed, recurring, haunted by form, and attentive to silence.
In these readings, the poems become audible architecture. They do not merely recount experience; they measure it — breath by breath, pause by pause.