Vasily Grossman - soedinennyi skrezhet

[David Powelstock]

Hell, definitely. And, perhaps, the parallel between teeth and barbs....
It's a very richly blended metaphor. I will be interested to see what Robert
comes up with
Cheers,
David

David Powelstock

> -----Original Message-----
> From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list
> [mailto:SEELANGS at BAMA.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Qualin, Anthony
> 
> I can't say what it would do for a native speaker of Russian, but the
> word skrezhet makes me think of skrezhet zubov and the gnashing of teeth
> in hell.
> I'm not sure that barbed wire can gnash, but there must be some way to
> preserve this parallel between the camps and hell.
> 
> Anthony

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