Lermontov's Demon I:XV

[Inna Caron]

An hour of separation, an hour of meeting,
Brings them neither sadness nor joy.
They do not desire anything in the future,
Nor do they pity anything in the past.

- Vladimir Golstein, "The Demon: How Not to Regain Paradise Lost" (in:
Lermontov's Narratives of Heroism, Northwestern U Press, Evanston, IL:
1998, p. 49)

I imagine David Powelstock will have an even better suggestion.

Inna Caron, OSU

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Subject: [SEELANGS] Lermontov's Demon I:XV

Does anyone happen to have on hand a translation (including name of 
translator) of the following 4 lines from part I pgph XV of "Demon"?:

×àñ ðàçëóêè, ÷àñ ñâèäàíüÿ

Èì íè ðàäîñòü, íè ïå÷àëü; 

Èì â ãðÿäóøåì íåò æåëàíüÿ 

È ïðîøåäøåãî íå æàëü..." 

 

In transliteration 

Chas razluki, chas svidan'ya

Im ni radost', ni pechal';

Im v gryadushem net zhelan'ya

I proshedshego ne zhal'..."  


It came up as a quote in a project this morning...Thanks, it will save 
me a trip!


Deborah Hoffman
Information Services Chair, Graduate Student Senate
Modern and Classical Language Studies
Kent State University
http://users.ameritech.net/lino59/index.htm

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