Kataev's Werther

Alexei Kokin alaix at YAHOO.COM
Fri Jul 16 06:05:15 UTC 2004


"Uzhe napisan Verter" is a quote from from _Razryv_, a poem by Pasternak
(published in _Temy i Variatsii_, 1923). Kataev's novel appeared in _Novyy
Mir_ in 1980, which is now hard to believe.

Alexei



On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 17:22:22 -0500, Russell Valentino <russell-
valentino at UIOWA.EDU> wrote:

>Dear Colleagues,
>
>I've run across a reference to a Valentin Kataev novel that was supposedly
>serialized in a Belgrade journal (sorry, the name isn't in the source) in
the
>early 1980s. The novel's title is given in Serbo-Croatian as *Werter je vec
>napisan*, which should be something like *Werther Has Already Been
Written."

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