In the beginning

[Slivkin, Yevgeny]

Dear colleagues,

I believe the key to the beginning of "Onegin" is the subjunctive mood which
is implied. 
"No bozhe moy, kakaia skuka poluzhivogo zabavliat'..." thinks Evgenii,
imagining what would have happed if the uncle had not kicked the bucket!
That is in English translation this line should be rendered as that, "But
what a boredom it would be to entertain a living corpse..."
The uncle is already dead. In Pushkin's time "  zastavit' sebia uvazhat'"
meant only one thing - "to kick the bucket".



Yevgeny Slivkin

  

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