Dostoevsky & A. I. Selin

[June Farris]

Hello!

In the index to the 30-volume Academy of Sciences 1972-1990 edition, A. I. 
Selin is mentioned several times, as follows:

Dostoevskii, F. M. Polnoe sobranie sochinenii v tridtsati tomakh. V. 24 = 
Dnevnik pisateli za 1876 god (noiabr'- dekabr'). Leningrad: Nauka, 1982,

p.  225:
Samoubiitsy
Selin--Prachkov
The commentary is on p. 473, as follows:

Selin, Aleksandr Ivanovich (1816-1877-zasluzhenyi professor Kievskogo 
universiteta po kafedre russkoi slovestnosti. V pis'me k Dostoevskomu ot 28 
ianvaria 1876g. on izlozhil mysli, vyskazannye im v doktorskoi dissertatsii 
("O dramticheskoi poezii v Rossii, preimushchestvenno o komedii, do 
Griboedova vkliuchitel'no" 1850-1852", ne opublikovana) i sozvuchnye, po 
ego mneniiu, vzgliadam pisatelia: "V odnom iz polozhenii ia govoriu, kogda 
imenno ideal, dannyi russkomu obshchestvu Petrom Velikim, nachal 
otzhivat'svoiu poru: ; dalee govoriu kakaia glavnaia ideia vsei russkoi 
literatury posle nashestvie Napoleona...
This commentary continues on for quite a bit more, so if you'd like me to 
send it to you, please let me know...

p. 227:
NB: Kstati o Seline (professore kievskom) i ego dissertatsii o tom, chto my 
vstupili v sovershennuiu neizvestnost'

p. 229 (the citation you quoted in your note to SEELANGS). Note that 
although it is under the heading "Sostav avgustovskogo", it is in the 
November-December 1876 section.
The commentary to this quote is on p. 476, which  identifies it as being 
from the end of chapter 25 of Herzen's "Byloe i dumy".  The commentary does 
not mention Selin.

p. 236-37:
entry entitled "K Selinu" and is a fairly lengthy paragraph, which I can 
copy and send to you, if you like.

There are several more references to Selin in the Nov-December 1876 section 
of Dnevnik pisatelia.

If you would like a photocopy of any of these entries, please send me your 
mailing address.

Regards,
June Farris



At 05:01 PM 5/22/2007, =?GB2312?Q?Liv_Bliss?= wrote:
>I wonder if someone far better informed than I can help me with this.
>
>In his notes for Writer's Diary (for August 1876), Dostoevsky wrote the
>following memo to himself: "§£§Ù§ñ§ä§î §Ú§Ù §¤§Ö§â§è§Ö§ß§Ñ, §Ú§Ù 
>'§³§ä§Ñ§ß§Ü§Ö§Ó§Ú§é§Ñ §Ü§â§å§Ô§Ñ' §Õ§Ý§ñ
>§Ó§à§Ù§â§Ñ§Ø§Ö§ß§î§ñ §³§Ö§Ý§Ú§ß§å" [Vzyat' iz Gertsena, iz 'Stankevicha 
>kruga' dlya
>vozrazhen'ya Selinu].
>
>"Selin" has me stumped: who on earth was that? (Obviously not Louis-
>Ferdinand Destouches-C¨¦line, who wasn't even born until 1894, but that's
>where the trail went cold for me.)
>
>I would vastly appreciate any clues that anyone can offer.
>
>Best to all
>Liv
>
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>for you are crunchy and good with ketchup -- Anon.
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June Pachuta Farris
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European and Eurasian Studies and
Bibliographer for General Linguistics
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University of Chicago
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