Svetolyubivy

[Robert Chandler]

Dear Gasan and all,

Thanks very much for your help.  I had a feeling that there was something
about Grossman's use of this word that I did not quite understand!

I'll end the list as follows: 'liberal factory owners, light-seeking men of
the church, crazy anarchists.'

And I'll add a note.

Best Wishes,

Robert




> Dear Robert,

very briefly: it is probably better not to  loose the word
> "light" here, for
there is a name of a book behind this  "светолюбивый" and
> the author, former
Marxist, who"came back" to the Orthodoxy. Сергей Булгаков.
> Свет невечерний,
published 1917. Grossman's readers were surely aware of all
> these new people
of the church who were looking for the light of
> Thabor.

gg


2008/5/25 Robert Chandler <kcf19 at dial.pipex.com>:

> Dear
> all,
>
> The following is from Grossman's VSE TECHET.  It is 1917.  Russia has
> cast
> off the chains of Tsarism and she is seen as a young nevesta.  Hundreds
> of
> suitors are parading before her:
>
>  Широким  кругом стояли  они -
> умеренные, фанатики, трудовики, народники,
> рабочелюбцы,  крестьянские
> заступники, просвещенные заводчики,
> светолюбивые
> церковники, бешеные
> анархисты.
>
> The adjective 'светолюбивoе' is usually used of plants, with
> the meaning
> 'light-loving'.  Am I right in thinking that Grossman's use of
> the word
> here
> is a bit jokey?  Presumably these churchmen are worldly, not
> light-loving
> but society-loving?
>
> Perhaps: 'There they stood in a great
> circle – moderates, fanatics,
> labourists, populists, friends of the workers,
> champions of the peasantry,
> enlightened factory owners, churchmen in love
> with the world, furious
> anarchists.
>
> Vsego dobrogo,
>
> R.
>
>
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