Jan Pototcki's novel and the Russian underground

[Olga Meerson]

Dear Zhenia,
Here is the text to the Khvost-Volokhonsky "Orlandina" based on an episode from the Potocki:
http://geo.web.ru/bards/Hvostenko/part1.htm

This song was very popular at some point, amongst Khvost's (or Henri's) fans, myself included.
Hope this really helps. The history of the Manuscript found in Saragossa in Russia, is long. Pushkin wrote a short poem on it (a v storone torchit glago', i na glagole tom dva tela...). But the Hanri-Khvost rendering as pretty striking and strikingly modern as well.
Yours,
Olga

----- Original Message -----
From: "Slivkin, Yevgeniy A." <slivkin at OU.EDU>
Date: Monday, June 23, 2008 3:31 pm
Subject: [SEELANGS] Jan Pototcki's novel and the Russian underground

> 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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