SV: [SEELANGS] Brodsky in Great Britain

[Jon Kyst]

The article is an edited version of Polukhina, Valentina. "Angliiskii Brodskii." Iosif Brodskii: tvorchestvo, lichnost', sud'ba. Itogi trekh konferencii. Zhurnal "ZVEZDA", Sankt-Petersburg, 1998. 49-59
 
Hence the absence in the new version of the article of practically anything printed about the issue after 1998.
 
I have discussed and criticized the 1998 article in Kiust, Ion. "Esche raz ob angliiskom Brodskom." Iosif Brodskii i mir: metafizika, antichnost', sovremennost'. Izdatel'stvo zhurnala "ZVEZDA", Sankt-Peterburg, 2000. 298-304
 

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Fra: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list på vegne af Boris Dagaev
Sendt: ti 17-06-2008 23:04
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Emne: Re: [SEELANGS] Brodsky in Great Britain



It is truly fascinating how desperate her love for Brodsky is. She even
invites philologists to become critics: "???????? ???????????? ??????
?????????? ?????? ????????? ????? ?? ???? ????????, ??? ?????????? ????
??????, ??? ????????? - ??????? ??????????, ? ????????????? - ???????
??????." ("naibolee avtoritetnuju ocenku anglijskih stihov Brodskogo mogli
by dat' filologi, chej anglijskij jazyk rodnoj, ch'ja professija - russkaja
literatura, a special'nost' - russkaja pojezija.")

However painful it is for her to agree with Craig Raine et al, Polukhina
should have kept a wide berth of criticism. Instead, she pushes ridiculously
vacuous (supposedly uplifting?) justifications: "[??] ????????? ? ?????????
??????????? ????????? ????? ?????????? ??????. ? ??? ????????? ????? ?????,
?? ??? ???? ????? ???????? ? ?????, ?????? ? ??????????." ("[On] nahodilsja
v sostojanii postojannogo izumlenija pered anglijskim jazykom. I kak
predannyj sluga jazyka, on nes svoe bremja smirenno i gordo, uprjamo i
blagorodno.") Had Brodsky's trademark forced humility, boundless
stubbornness and affected nobleness run a little longer, he would've become
another McGonagall. She should humbly thank God Brodsky didn't live as long.

Boris
On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 5:46 PM, Alexandra Smith <Alexandra.Smith at ed.ac.uk>
wrote:

> Dear colleagues,
>
> Those of you who are interested in Brodsky might be curious to read
> Valentina Polukhina's fascinating article on the reception of Brodsky in
> Great Britain. It was published in the journal on poetry "Storony sveta":
> http://www.stosvet.net/9/polukhina/
>
> All best,
> Alexandra
>
>



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