Solzhenitsyn and Natalia Reshetovskaia question

[Mark Yoffe]

Thank you Alina.
There is no tirazh or any publishing info. given on the book. Only the publisher's name and the price of 41 kop. Not even the city or country of publication is given.
I totally agree with Alina's analysis of the book's "doublevoicedness." Reshetovskaia text is should have been doctored or "helped."
MY

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Alina Israeli <aisrael at AMERICAN.EDU> 
Date: Wednesday, May 31, 2006 11:58 am 
Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Solzhenitsyn and Natalia Reshetovskaia question 
To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU 

> > (in fact, what is the tirazh on your copy of V spore so 
> >vremenem?) in Russian. But how many of them in fact reached the 
> >bookstores? 
> 
> If I ever dig out my copy, I could tell you, but Mark Yoffe could 
> probablydo it quicker since he has it in front of him. 
> 
> In defense of Reshetovskaya (not personally, but conceptually, as 
> a person 
> used and discarded) I could recommend a little known book by Ilya 
> Zil'berberg "Neobxodimyj razgovor s Solzhenitsynym" published in 
> the West, 
> a very rare book in fact because to my knowledge close friends of 
> Solzhenitsyn were bying it out and destroying it. 
> 
> In defense of Solzhenitsyn I could say something he allegedly said 
> to a 
> noted literary critic about leaving his first wife: "I never had 
> childrenbefore." 
> 
> Reading Reshetovskaya's book is an interesting excercise, because 
> you can 
> trace two modes or two styles: where she speaks as a person 
> (appropriatelybitter, who shared the worst times but not the 
> glory) and where either she 
> or someone else adds the lingo of the day, which is somewhat 
> remeniscent of 
> a style Lixachev called "literaturnyj etiket": a prince was 
> supposed to be 
> appropriately praised (so was the Soviet ruler), enemies were 
> supposed to 
> be chastized etc. 
> 
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