Sense of Okudzhava's GOLUBOI SHARIK

[Tom Dolack]

> >I would recommend finding Pasternak's translation of Baratashvili's poem
> >"Tsvet nebesnyi, sinii tsvet..." The whole poem is about the color blue
> >(called in turns "sinii" or "goluboi"). This  poem will help you to
> >understand what tradition Okudzhava comes from.
>
>Then you have to go back to Blok and his color "goluboj".


If you're going to keep going back, it might not hurt to look at Goethe's
theory of colors. Although obviously it's not Slavic, it was fairly
influential for a while.

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