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“One cannot even call him a house-serf…” | XIX век
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Notes on nineteenth-century Russian poetry and prose. One cannot even call him a house-serf…. June 15, 2015. Back when I was collecting commonplaces of literary slavery. Russian and American, one thing that made my list was that house and field slaves were distinct categories in the eyes of masters and slaves alike. I recently realized that Lgov. 1847), one of Turgenev’s. Записки охотника, 1847-51, 1872, 1874) plays a lot on these groups’ social and linguistic divisions. For форейтор (see pp. 121. Sutcho...
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Noblemen pursuing house and field slaves, and noblewomen foiling their plans | XIX век
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Notes on nineteenth-century Russian poetry and prose. Noblemen pursuing house and field slaves, and noblewomen foiling their plans. January 22, 2013. Writers looking back at serfdom from after February 19th, 1861 often describe a male slaveholder blocking the marriage of two serfs because he was himself interested in the woman. In Vsevolod Krestovskii’s. A Death in Spring. 1861) the master blocks Parasha’s marriage. 8221; written 1876; for Juliet M. Soskice’s English translation search this page. 8220;Mo...
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Vexation of spirit | XIX век
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Notes on nineteenth-century Russian poetry and prose. June 8, 2015. There is a Leskov story called Томленье духа (1890), a title which William Edgerton rendered in English as Anguish of Spirit and Hugh McLean as Vexation of Spirit. At first I liked Edgerton’s title better: something about the word vexation struck me as overly precise and unnatural. Would people have said that? 1871), my instincts on the naturalness of vexation flipped completely. Mostly in Ecclesiastes, and corresponds to томление духа.
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Slavery and emancipation themes in Russian and Anglophone literature | XIX век
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Notes on nineteenth-century Russian poetry and prose. Slavery and emancipation themes in Russian and Anglophone literature. September 4, 2011. A list, to be expanded as I find examples, of specific recurring themes from both literatures that belong to the general category of “slavery and emancipation”:. Slave families are divided when some are sold/all are sold to different masters (. Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Avdot’ia Panaeva’s memoirs). ( SE1. My Past and Thoughts. Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Other slaves do agricultu...
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The humblest communication can’t interpret itself | XIX век
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Notes on nineteenth-century Russian poetry and prose. The humblest communication can’t interpret itself. February 13, 2015. A while ago I posted. About Masha Gessen’s review of. And Russell Scott Valentino’s response to it. RSV has thoughtfully replied. Meant only what he intended it to mean, which I don’t. I think RSV and I agree that we all create our own partially idiosyncratic reading in our mind when we read a book. I’d add that part of this process is creating an idea of an author, a stor...When do...
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Translation comparison: The Gambler | XIX век
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Notes on nineteenth-century Russian poetry and prose. Translation comparison: The Gambler. August 21, 2012. I think some literature teachers and readers who had missed Barry Scherr’s comparison. Of different translations of. Found their way to it here, and I’m going to try to post on such comparisons whenever I find them. Today it’s Boris Dralyuk on Dostoevskii’s. Dralyuk compares translations by Constance Garnett (first published in 1917. In one case Dostoevskii uses the adjective. That is, that perhaps...
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Esper Ivanych Implev | XIX век
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Notes on nineteenth-century Russian poetry and prose. April 15, 2013. A typology of noblemen who sleep with female slaves:. Type 1 – Overflowing with masculinity, like Vishnevskii. In Leskov’s Ancient Psychopaths ( Старинные психопаты. 1885) These dominating men seem like they would find a way to sleep with many women even if they did not own women, but because they do, their children become their property and work in the fields for them. The peasant Mar’ia before. 1861 in Pisemskii’s. A man who built a ...
