query re: Russian commonplace books

[Olga Meerson]

It is a semejnyj al'bom
o.m.

----- Original Message -----
From: Rebecca Jane Stanton <rjs19 at COLUMBIA.EDU>
Date: Friday, September 21, 2007 10:44 am
Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] query re: Russian commonplace books

> Actually I have at least one friend in Petersburg who does keep 
> what 
> would, I think, be best described as a commonplace book -- into 
> which 
> she writes poems and other fragments of literature she's read that 
> strike a chord with her, effectively anthologizing them for 
> personal 
> use.  She produces it quite often when I'm around and the subject 
> of 
> poetry comes up.  I can't imagine she is alone in this -- 
> especially 
> given the Russian affinity for books and libraries, the historical 
> scarcity of commercially produced books, the tradition of samizdat, 
> etc. 
> -- but the question of whether it exists as a recognized cultural 
> phenomenon with a name, much less a known history, in Russia is one 
> I'm 
> not in a position to answer.
> 
> Regards,
> RJS
> 
> -- 
> Rebecca Stanton
> Assistant Professor of Russian
> Dept. of Slavic Languages
> Barnard College, Columbia University
> 3009 Broadway
> New York, NY 10027
> 
> 
> Frans Suasso wrote:
> 
> > I am affraid that putside the angosaxon world this phenomenon is 
> > completely unknown. The Germans do not have it, the French do'nt, 
> the 
> > Dutch certainly not.
> > Why should the Russians have it?
> >
> > Dr Frans Suasso,
> > Naarden the Netherlands
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Anne Fisher" <Anne.Fisher at WILLIAMS.EDU>
> 
> > To: <SEELANGS at BAMA.UA.EDU>
> > Sent: Friday, September 21, 2007 1:45 PM
> > Subject: [SEELANGS] query re: Russian commonplace books
> >
> >
> >> Dear SEELANGers,
> >>
> >> Can any of you point me to resources on Russian commonplace 
> books? I  
> >> was having an interesting discussion with a (non-Slavicist) 
> >> colleague  about the difference between commonplace books, 
> ladies' 
> >> albums, and  writers' notebooks, and realized that I've never 
> come 
> >> across any  mention of Russians (whether readers or writers, 
> literati 
> >> or just  literate) keeping a commonplace book.
> >>
> >> It doesn't help that I don't know what the Russian for 
> "commonplace  
> >> book" is!
> >>
> >> Thanks for any leads,
> >>
> >> Annie
> >>
> >> ____________________
> >>
> >> Anne O. Fisher
> >> Visiting Assistant Professor of Russian
> >> Department of German and Russian
> >> Williams College
> >> Williamstown, MA  01267
> >> anne.fisher AT williams.edu
> >> office: 413.597.4723
> >> fax: 413.597.3028
> >
> 
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