Belinsky - Onegin

[Jack Kollmann]

         I find the quote in English translation in "V.G. 
Belinsky:  Selected Philosophical Works," Moscow, Foreign Languages 
Publishing House, Moscow, 1956, p. 294:  ""'Onegin' could be called an 
encyclopedia of Russian life, and a supremely national work."  The quote 
comes towards the end of a subsection of the book entitled "The Works of 
Alexander Pushkin," which contains "'Eugene Onegin,' Article Eight (pp. 
211-258)," and "'Eugene Onegin,' Article Nine (pp. 259-295)."  I had 
forgotten that Belinsky wrote so extensively about Pushkin -- thanks for 
sending me back to this book (it was dusty).  Odd what one acquires over 
the years:  my notes show that I bought it somewhere in 1970 for $1.85.

         The book states that these two articles on Pushkin were first 
published in "Otechestvennie Zapiski" in 1844, but that this translation is 
of a 1948 Russian edition of Belinsky's "Selected Philosophical Works," 
Moscow, State Publishers of Political Literature.

Jack Kollmann
CREEES, Stanford University


At 07:16 AM 12/1/04, you wrote:
>SEELANGovtsy,
>does anyone of you happen to know the exact title of the publication in
>which Belinsky stated that 'Eugen Onegin is the encyclopedia of Russian
>life'? Was it an article or a review? Actually, I would like to know the
>entire context of Belinsky's statement.
>Please reply off-list to veerle.thire at student.kuleuven.ac.be
>Thank you very much for your help,
>Veerle Thiré
>
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