Jan Pototcki's novel and the Russian underground

[Alexandra Smith]

Dear Yevgeny,

The book was translated into Russian and published in 1968 (as part of  
Literaturnye pamiatniki project; I think that prior to this there must  
have been some references to him in Vladimir Odoevsky's writings: do  
check Neil Cornwell's book on Odoevsky, but I'm sure that either in  
his book on Odoevsky or in some articles Neil wrote on Ian Pototskii  
and Odoevsky). It was not easy to get hold of many books related to  
the Literaturnye pamiatniki  series but it was not impossible, of  
course. I would imagine that Bitov might have read it. I will ask  
someone who is writing a PhD thesis on him in St Petersburg and knows  
Bitov well.

All best,
Alexandra



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Alexandra Smith (PhD, University of London)
Reader in Russian
Department of European Languages and Cultures
School of  Languages, Literatures and Cultures
The University of Edinburgh
David Hume Tower
George Square
Edinburgh EX8 9JX
UK

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e-mail: Alexandra.Smith at ed.ac.uk



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