seelangs query
John Schillinger
jschill at AMERICAN.EDU
Mon Apr 16 19:12:27 UTC 2007
Oops! Tony is right about Stuk, stuk, stuk-- Stuchit' is what came
to my mind first!
JS
On Apr 16, 2007, at 3:01 PM, Vanchu, Anthony J. (JSC-AH)[TTI] wrote:
> Turgenev's story "Stuk, stuk, stuk" does indeed end in suicide for
> just
> such the reasons you describe.
>
> It's one of later stories that deal with the supernatural (others
> include "Faust," "Rasskaz ottsa Aleksseia," Son," "Sobaka,"
> "Prizraki,"
> "Neschatsnaia," "Strannia istoriia," "Pesn' torzhestvuiushvhiei
> liubvi,"
> and "Klara Milich").
>
> You can find the story on line (suicide and all!) at:
> http://ru.wikisource.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D1%82%D1%83%D0%BA..._%D1%81%D1%
> 82%D
> 1%83%D0%BA..._%D1%81%D1%82%D1%83%D0%BA!.._(%D0%A2%D1%83%D1%80%D0%B3%
> D0%B
> 5%D0%BD%D0%B5%D0%B2)
>
>
> Tony
>
> Dr. Anthony J. Vanchu
> Director, JSC Language Education Center
> TechTrans International, Inc.
> NASA Johnson Space Center
> Houston, TX
> anthony.j.vanchu at nasa.gov
> Phone: (281) 483-0644
> Fax: (281) 483-4050
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:SEELANGS at BAMA.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Alina Israeli
> Sent: Monday, April 16, 2007 1:30 PM
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> Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] seelangs query
>
> Not a Russian one, but I think along the same lines is a novella by
> Guy
> de Maupassant "Le Horla". But maybe I don't remember the plot
> correctly,
> I read it many-many years ago.
>
>
> On Apr 16, 2007, at 1:45 PM, Svetlana Grenier wrote:
>
>> There is a story by Turgenev "Stuk-stuk-stuk" (I don't remember the
>> details, but the characters are trying to figure out where the sound
>> comes from and someone perhaps commits suicide as a result[?]).
>>
>> Svetlana Grenier
>> Georgetown University
>>
>> smarquet at FAS.HARVARD.EDU wrote:
>>
>>> Are there any Russian stories or novels about obsessed people
>>> chasing
>
>>> phantom sounds?
>
> Alina Israeli
> LFS, American University
> 4400 Massachusetts Ave., NW
> Washington DC. 20016
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> aisrael at american.edu
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