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Re: TT 6 Turgenev/Dostoevsky?
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Simon Karlinsky, I think, opted for a blended figure.
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Date: Sunday, August 01, 2004 2:34 PM -0700
From: naiman <naiman@socrates.Berkeley.EDU>
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Subject: RE: TT 6
------------------ I'm curious about the certainty with which the Turgenev
affirmation is made. I'm sure the scholarly literature has more about
his, but there is much that does not fit -- the boots still wet from a
ten-mile ramble to the nearest casino, this writer's finding it easier to
read in German than in French, dark-touseled -- does this describe
Turgenev? Some of the signs point to Dostoevsky (which would place this
date later, right?) Some of this is of course, easy to check in the
Dosto. or other letopisi -- which I'll try to remember to do when I arrive
home next month. The 3000 points to the "three" theme, but also to the
Bros. K., where the 300 (or is it 3000) roubles become as significant an
ideological character as "Napoleon" elsewhere. I don't have a copy of
Bros. K at hand, but Dostoevsky seems more relevant here, and is the
writer who dealt with taking in a prostitute. I see little of a
Turgenevian aura over this chapter. One would want to check Faust in the
index to Dostoevsky's Collected Works, but remember he didn't neglect the
demonic
On cremation and the Gift. Boris Maslov recently published an article in
NLO which links that scene to Crime and Punishment.
Eric
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Date: Sunday, August 01, 2004 2:34 PM -0700
From: naiman <naiman@socrates.Berkeley.EDU>
To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
Subject: RE: TT 6
------------------ I'm curious about the certainty with which the Turgenev
affirmation is made. I'm sure the scholarly literature has more about
his, but there is much that does not fit -- the boots still wet from a
ten-mile ramble to the nearest casino, this writer's finding it easier to
read in German than in French, dark-touseled -- does this describe
Turgenev? Some of the signs point to Dostoevsky (which would place this
date later, right?) Some of this is of course, easy to check in the
Dosto. or other letopisi -- which I'll try to remember to do when I arrive
home next month. The 3000 points to the "three" theme, but also to the
Bros. K., where the 300 (or is it 3000) roubles become as significant an
ideological character as "Napoleon" elsewhere. I don't have a copy of
Bros. K at hand, but Dostoevsky seems more relevant here, and is the
writer who dealt with taking in a prostitute. I see little of a
Turgenevian aura over this chapter. One would want to check Faust in the
index to Dostoevsky's Collected Works, but remember he didn't neglect the
demonic
On cremation and the Gift. Boris Maslov recently published an article in
NLO which links that scene to Crime and Punishment.
Eric
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D. Barton Johnson
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