Russian commonplace books

[Oleg Pashuk]

Дневник или блокнот для заметок = scribbling-diary

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From: "Matthew Walker" <mpwalker at WISC.EDU>
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Sent: Friday, September 21, 2007 10:37 PM
Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Russian commonplace books


> With a bow towards Gogol... how about книга всякой всячины?
>
> Matt Walker
> UW-Madison
>
> Sergey Karpukhin wrote:
>
> >There is the excellent Russian tradition of keeping a notebook, zapisnaya
> >knizhka, and, as far as Russian literature is concerned, it's at least
200
> >years old (Prince P.A. Vyazemsky's notebook, for example). Granted, the
> >genre differs from that of the commonplace book in that it is firmly
> >embedded in the high-culture literary canon, unlike the commonplace books
of
> >the Elizabethans, for instance. In the 20th C Russian literature we have
> >remarkable exemplars of such "intermediary" literature, up to and
including
> >M.L. Gasparov's Zapisi i vypiski.
> >
> >Samuel Beckett called his multilingual commonplace book (writer's working
> >notebook, rather) a sottisier. Sounds like a good translation, but not
> >necessarily the same thing.
> >
> >Just a couple of thoughts.
> >
> >Regards,
> >Sergey Karpukhin
> >University of Wisconsin-Madison
> >
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