tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post6902351848895458000..comments2024-03-27T16:48:21.039-05:00Comments on Wuthering <br>Expectations: A parody, an empty show - Pushkin opens his ByronAmateur Reader (Tom)http://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-7699601312995947242014-02-24T14:08:08.042-06:002014-02-24T14:08:08.042-06:00I look forward to the review. Felder is a writer w...I look forward to the review. Felder is a writer with no trace in English, just a rumor to me. He tried "<a href="http://en.adler-damuels.at/holiday-walking-bregenzerwald/Excursions-vorarlberg/kunst-kultur/Franz-Michael-Felder-Museum-Schoppernau" rel="nofollow">to break the trade monopoly of the infamous cheese lords</a>," which you have to like.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-82806856698541851422014-02-24T13:57:09.876-06:002014-02-24T13:57:09.876-06:00Perfect excuse, isn't it ? To be forgiven, I p...Perfect excuse, isn't it ? To be forgiven, I promise to review Franz Michael Felder's Autobiography, Scenes from my life. A nineteenth century Austrian writer and peasant, in a remote place in the Alps. Completely in the Stifter's line.catherine darleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05693132012083884186noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-37333703080615206882014-02-24T13:53:31.665-06:002014-02-24T13:53:31.665-06:00For anyone who wanders by and does not know what h...For anyone who wanders by and does not know what humblehappiness & I are talking about, the dueling scene and its surrounding apparatus really is very rich.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-26423867217504862022014-02-24T13:26:20.146-06:002014-02-24T13:26:20.146-06:00We could delve further into Borgesburg and ask our...We could delve further into Borgesburg and ask ourselves, does a man who, by the time he hits his mid-thirties has been part of 30 duels, have a death wish? Is Eugene Onegin the world's longest and most brilliant suicide note?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-26004023252819138882014-02-24T12:52:23.723-06:002014-02-24T12:52:23.723-06:00Maybe it's Onegin seeking suicide - but he bot...Maybe it's Onegin seeking suicide - but he botches it.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-71810233097859566662014-02-24T12:42:24.263-06:002014-02-24T12:42:24.263-06:00Being a sucker for secret plots, I have a little t...Being a sucker for secret plots, I have a little theory about Pushkin hinting how Lensky's death at the duel was a kind of suicide. That's where the references to Seneca, Chamfort and Lovelace, etc. would come into play.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-48867129491991210272014-02-24T12:40:38.217-06:002014-02-24T12:40:38.217-06:00I wish I had been walking around Rome all day. Ho...I wish I had been walking around Rome all day. How wonderful! That, and Italian computers, are the perfect excuse for all miscommunication.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-31637566438620410132014-02-24T12:30:02.551-06:002014-02-24T12:30:02.551-06:00I even nearly lost my temper looking for that pass...I even nearly lost my temper looking for that passage on this lousy Italian computer. catherine darleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05693132012083884186noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-54396691563496104152014-02-24T12:28:23.823-06:002014-02-24T12:28:23.823-06:00Really ??? I have been walking through Rome the al...Really ??? I have been walking through Rome the all day and it seems I'm quite tired. Sorry... catherine darleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05693132012083884186noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-12368814000983579372014-02-24T11:24:07.428-06:002014-02-24T11:24:07.428-06:00Catherine: ???
That passage, which I used above, ...Catherine: ???<br /><br />That passage, which I used above, same translation and everything, specifically says that Tatyana "fell in love" with Richardson.<br /><br />Her father is indifferent, yes. Tatyana is not.<br /><br />She does not "mostly" read the dream book. She reads it after she has a bizarre dream.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-60747575266520151162014-02-24T11:18:16.589-06:002014-02-24T11:18:16.589-06:00I don't remember exactly the text, but wasn...I don't remember exactly the text, but wasn't Grandison more Tatyana's mother reference rather than Tatyana's? And Tatyana's aunt in Petersburg? I saw the Vakhtangov Theater production last month and that how I remember the story. If she has read a lot, it seems to have been anything indifferently since her father didn't look at the books she took.<br />XXIX<br /><br /> From early on she loved romances,<br /> they were her only food... and so<br /> she fell in love with all the fancies<br /> of Richardson and of Rousseau.<br /> Her father, kindly, well-regarded,<br /> but in an earlier age retarded,<br /> could see no harm in books; himself<br /> he never took one from the shelf,<br /> thought them a pointless peccadillo;<br /> and cared not what his daughter kept<br /> by way of secret tome that slept<br /> until the dawn beneath her pillow.<br /> His wife, just like Tatyana, had<br /> on Richardson gone raving mad.<br /><br /> And of course Tayana's reading mostly La clef des songes - the divination of dreams (I had an old french version of La clef des songes when I was a child and I can understand Tatyana; it's such a pleasure. catherine darleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05693132012083884186noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-57392602879016526782014-02-24T11:06:41.903-06:002014-02-24T11:06:41.903-06:00That's right, Tatyana's cheap dream book. ...That's right, Tatyana's cheap dream book. As she matures, she also abandons superstitions.<br /><br />I wonder what Seneca is doing on that list.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-67602529538435663452014-02-24T09:20:10.549-06:002014-02-24T09:20:10.549-06:00Frist! I mean, it's also interesting to notic...Frist! I mean, it's also interesting to notice the list of authors Pushkin himself endorses, before ironically distancing himself from such a crass display of fanboyism with a couple of jokes. After her dream, Tatyana feels that:<br /><br />'But neither Virgil nor Racine, or Scott, or Byron, or Seneca, or even a fashion magazine might have had an effect upon her such as the book she was reading. This book was Martin Zadiedka's, my friends! The master of the Chaldeans wizards, the astrologer and diviner of dreams.'Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com