help with a reference

[matthew walker]

Not sure if this helps, but I seem to recall Vasil'ev denouncing Fedor's Zhizn'
Chernyshevskogo as an "otsebiatina" when he rejects it right at the end of
chapter three of Dar.

Matt Walker
UW Madison

At 11:17 PM 4/17/2001 -0600, you wrote:
>Sorry to impose on somebody's good will (and everybody's time) but . . .
>
>In a brief contribution to a festschrift I wrote that so-and-so "allows
>himself too much of, in Nabokov's term, 'otsebyatina'." I provided no
>reference, since I thought the term was too well-known to need one.
>
>Now I have received my contribution back from the editor with an insistent
>demand for a reference and, of course, a looming deadline. I can if
>necessary omit Nabokov but I would prefer not to. But searching at very
>short notice all of his writings on translation is a tall order. I checked
>with the first edition of his four-volume translation/version-and-edition
>of Evgeniy Onegin, to no avail . . .
>
>I assume that at he will have used the term OTSEBYATINA least once in the
>polemics in the *New York Review of Books* and *Encounter* of July 1965 -
>May 1966. Even so, this may not be his first use of the term. However,
>**any** reference to one of the times he uses the term (and explains it)
>will serve.
>
>If someone can assist me, and respond off-list, - thanks in advance!
>
>Tom Priestly
>
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