kofe

[Francoise Rosset]

Someone pointed out the Cyrillic was garbled in 
my last post ... for me as well.
Sorry!! whatever I do with my e-mail, this seems 
to happen. This particular excerpt was dragged 
from the Russian on-line library, and obviously 
not very "udachno."

Let me try typing it, we all need a bit of comic relief:

-- Vtuk;yz z9 Hjgvrkd,z Kvnhkdyg9 yt .e;e hnm, 
rkan/   _dgj7 rkanq_  --- vrgpgl Ndgy Zrkdtldnx9 
--- g dbtvmk mkuk [kxtmvz byt v¾tvm, ukjzxtuk 
[lt.]g v lerkb7
Mk tvm,9 Ndgy Zrkdtldnx  [kmtl .s n mkuk n 
;jeukuk9 yk pygl9 xmk .slk vkdtjityyk ytdkpbk'yk 
mjt.kdgm, ;de[ dtotq jgpkb9 n.k Hjgvrkd,z 
Kvnhkdyg kxty, yt l/.nlg mgrn[ hjn[kmtq7
---4 Hevm, ;ejgr tvm [lt.1  byt 't lexot9 --- 
hk;ebglg  hjk vt.z vehjeug9 -- kvmgytmvz rkan/ 
lniyzz hkj]nz7 4

In adapted translit (no diacritics on hushing 
sounds), so that the i kratkoe shows:

--Segodnja ja, Praskov'ja Osipovna, ne budu pit' 
kofij **  -- skazal Ivan Jakovlevich -- a vmesto 
togo xochetsja mne s"est" gorjachego klebca s 
lukom.
(To est', Ivan Jakovlevich xotel by i togo i 
drugogo, no znal, chto bylo sovershenno 
nevozmozhno trebovat' dvux veshchej razom, ibo 
Praskov'ja Osipovna ochen' ne ljubila takix 
prixotej.) "Pust' durak est xleb; mne zhe 
luchshe, -- podumala pro sebja supruga, -- 
ostanetsja kofiju lishnjaja porcija."
** another text has "kofiju" here

"Today, Praskov'ia Osipovna, I shall not drink 
coffee [rkanq], said Ivan Iakovlevich -- instead 
I feel like eating some hot roll with onion."
(That is, Ivan Iakovlevich would have liked both, 
but he knew that it was completely out of the 
question to request two things at once, for 
Praskov'ia Osipovna really disliked such whims).
"Let the moron have his bread, -- thought the 
good wife to herself -- there'll be an extra 
serving of coffee [rkan/] left."

Text in the Russian on-line library:
http://az.lib.ru/g/gogolx_n_w/text_0100.shtml

Hope that clarifies it, and thanks for the 
Chekhovian added example from Chekhov!
-FR









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Francoise Rosset
Russian and Russian Studies
Interim Coordinator, Women's Studies
Wheaton College                         
Norton, Massachusetts 02766
        
phone: 	(508) 286-3696
fax #:   	(508) 286-3640
e-mail: FRosset at wheatonma.edu

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