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----- Forwarded message from a-nakata@courante.plala.or.jp -----
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 07:52:52 +0900
From: Akiko Nakata <a-nakata@courante.plala.or.jp>
Reply-To: Akiko Nakata <a-nakata@courante.plala.or.jp>
Subject: Turgenev and Pauline
Dear Don and List,
I am forwarding a note from Jansy and my reply.
Best, Akiko
EDNOTE.
----- Original Message -----
From: Jansy Berndt de Souza Mello
To: Akiko Nakata
Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2004 2:03 AM
Subject: killed by a dead bull
Dear Akiko
Quite outside the scope of our Pauline Anide in TT, here comes the curious
coincidence:
Turgenev was in love with a married woman named Pauline during at least
forty years of his life. He had had a daughter with a serf and he changed
the girl´s name to Pauline and took her to live among the Virardot
children at the home of his constant love. He followed Mrs.P. Viardot
( a singer ) to all the places she moved to ( Baden Baden, Berlin...) and
T. described home as " on the ege of someone else´s nest ".
Turgenev also wrote a novel called " A Nest of the Landed Gentry".
( this information came from L. Shapiro who translated for Penguin Edition
Turgenev´s " Spring Torrents" )
Best,
Jansy
----- Original Message -----
From: Akiko Nakata
To: Jansy Berndt de Souza Mello
Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2004 7:45 AM
Subject: Re: killed by a dead bull
Dear Jansy,
Thanks very much for the big find about Turgenev with Pauline!
As you say, Turgenev is not referred to in TT, but I think Turgenev is one
of the important motifs hidden under the surface of the novel and never
referred to--such things are too many in TT! As Dieter Zimmer and Alexey
Sklyarenko discussed in July (long, long ago!), I am convinced the
identity--at least a half--of the "minor Dostoevsky" in Ch. 6 is Turgenev.
Until then I had no idea about "Faust in Moscow," but it must be Turgenev's
"Faust." It is a kind of ghost story and some similarities with TT could be
found in it.
And now, thanks to you, there appears another thread connecting Turgenev
and "Pauline anide." I have been wondering where the Pauline is from as well
as the "anide"--whatever it is, "formless" or something like "nest," I felt
there must be something more. Turgenev, Pauline, nest. Wonderful!
Best,
Akiko
----- End forwarded message -----
EDNOTE. As I recall (always a dubious introduction), Simon Karlinsky suggested
the the Turgenev connection in his early review of TT, but not Turgenev's
Pauline Viardot connection. Why the TT character is Pauline is so named I don't
know but the anide (=Fr. "formless") refers to the upstairs sculpture she serves
as the modele. The anide sculpture strongly suggests Henry Moore's endless,
formless "Mother" sculptures which VN mentions elsewhere in most negative
terms.
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 07:52:52 +0900
From: Akiko Nakata <a-nakata@courante.plala.or.jp>
Reply-To: Akiko Nakata <a-nakata@courante.plala.or.jp>
Subject: Turgenev and Pauline
Dear Don and List,
I am forwarding a note from Jansy and my reply.
Best, Akiko
EDNOTE.
----- Original Message -----
From: Jansy Berndt de Souza Mello
To: Akiko Nakata
Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2004 2:03 AM
Subject: killed by a dead bull
Dear Akiko
Quite outside the scope of our Pauline Anide in TT, here comes the curious
coincidence:
Turgenev was in love with a married woman named Pauline during at least
forty years of his life. He had had a daughter with a serf and he changed
the girl´s name to Pauline and took her to live among the Virardot
children at the home of his constant love. He followed Mrs.P. Viardot
( a singer ) to all the places she moved to ( Baden Baden, Berlin...) and
T. described home as " on the ege of someone else´s nest ".
Turgenev also wrote a novel called " A Nest of the Landed Gentry".
( this information came from L. Shapiro who translated for Penguin Edition
Turgenev´s " Spring Torrents" )
Best,
Jansy
----- Original Message -----
From: Akiko Nakata
To: Jansy Berndt de Souza Mello
Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2004 7:45 AM
Subject: Re: killed by a dead bull
Dear Jansy,
Thanks very much for the big find about Turgenev with Pauline!
As you say, Turgenev is not referred to in TT, but I think Turgenev is one
of the important motifs hidden under the surface of the novel and never
referred to--such things are too many in TT! As Dieter Zimmer and Alexey
Sklyarenko discussed in July (long, long ago!), I am convinced the
identity--at least a half--of the "minor Dostoevsky" in Ch. 6 is Turgenev.
Until then I had no idea about "Faust in Moscow," but it must be Turgenev's
"Faust." It is a kind of ghost story and some similarities with TT could be
found in it.
And now, thanks to you, there appears another thread connecting Turgenev
and "Pauline anide." I have been wondering where the Pauline is from as well
as the "anide"--whatever it is, "formless" or something like "nest," I felt
there must be something more. Turgenev, Pauline, nest. Wonderful!
Best,
Akiko
----- End forwarded message -----
EDNOTE. As I recall (always a dubious introduction), Simon Karlinsky suggested
the the Turgenev connection in his early review of TT, but not Turgenev's
Pauline Viardot connection. Why the TT character is Pauline is so named I don't
know but the anide (=Fr. "formless") refers to the upstairs sculpture she serves
as the modele. The anide sculpture strongly suggests Henry Moore's endless,
formless "Mother" sculptures which VN mentions elsewhere in most negative
terms.