piatiknizhie in English

[Melissa Smith]

This is the first one I think I could live with. It doesn't sound too 
occult!


Irene Zohrab wrote:


>How about rendering it in English just as the quintet of Dostoevsky's 
major novels?
>
>Irene Zohrab
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>As is, I am extremely averse to the term in Russian. People with pious 
pretenses often sound blasphemous--especially Dostoevsky scholars! 
After all, pious pretenses very often switches into idolatry, replacing 
God with an idol. In any case, saying "Dostoevsky's Five Great Novels", 
or even D's Five Greats, could do. Being a Dostoevsky scholar myself, 
with many Russian colleagues, obviously, I have had to resist the 
expression or actively protest against it, for the past fifteen years. 
I will continue doing so. After all, being a  Dostoevsky scholar has 
never exempted me from my faith and its priorities!
>o.m.
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Melissa T. Smith, Professor
Department of Foreign Languages and 
Literatures  
Youngstown State University
Youngstown, OH 44555
Tel: (330)941-3462

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