Jan Pototcki's novel and the Russian underground

[David Goldfarb]

In the U.S., Has's film based on _The Saragossa Manuscript_ gained
some popularity thanks to the interest of the Greatful Dead guitarist,
Jerry Garcia, so it blended into the fabric of the psychedelic
movement.  I don't know if that context filtered back to the Russian
underground of the 60s and 70s, but the period is right.

David A. Goldfarb
http://www.echonyc.com/~goldfarb

On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 3:31 PM, Slivkin, Yevgeniy A. <slivkin at ou.edu> wrote:
> Dear colleagues,
> In his book "Anderground: istoriia I mify leningradskoi neofitsial'noi literatury" S. Savitskii mentions a song by A. Khvostenko that narrates an episode from Jan Potocki's novel "The Manuscript found in Saragossa".
> Does anyone know of any other influence this novel had on the literature of the Russian underground of the 1960's-70's? A film version of the novel by the Polish film director W. Has was released in the USSR in the late 1960's. Some influence could perhaps be found in authors who use "inserted novel in inserted novel" techniques ("matreshka" narrative), since the main motif in the film is the surrealistic motif of a dreamer apparently awakening into what turns out to be just another dream.
> Thank you.
>
> Yevgeny Slivkin
> Department of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics
> University of Oklahoma
>
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