"Brief Life" of Pushkin and Grossman Question

[Robert Chandler]

Many thanks to everyone who answered my last Grossman question, on and off
list.  It was nice to find such universal agreement, for once!

I'd like to mention that my "Brief Life" of Pushkin (published by Hesperus)
is now available in the USA.  Here is a link to the Amazon page:
<http://www.amazon.com/Alexander-Pushkin-Brief-Robert-Chandler/dp/1843919125
/ref=sr_1_16?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1254221825&sr=1-16>
As always, a number of SEELANGers were of great help.  I hope that they are
all named in the acknowledgments - but if I have left anyone out, my thanks,
and apologies, to them too!

All the best,

Robert

> Hello Robert, I'd like to second Elena Ostrovskaya in that it is an
> exclamation and refers to their emotions on passing by their houses where they
> were born and married their daughters off.
> 
> Best,
> ~Maya
> 
> --- On Sun, 9/27/09, Robert Chandler <kcf19 at DIAL.PIPEX.COM> wrote:
> 
> From: Robert Chandler <kcf19 at DIAL.PIPEX.COM>
> Subject: [SEELANGS] Grossman VSE TECHET  - chto oni perezhivali
> To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu
> Date: Sunday, September 27, 2009, 12:41 PM
> 
> Dear all,
> 
> I have suddenly felt deeply uncertain about my understanding of one
> sentence.
> 
> The narrator of this chapter is an intelligent, but not highly educated
> woman.  She is telling someone she loves about
>  her experiences during the
> early 1930s.  Her syntax is casual, but not slangy.
> 
> А из нашей деревни гнали раскулаченных пешком. Только что на
> себя взяли - постель, одежду. Грязь была такая, что сапоги с ног стаскивала.
> Нехорошо было на них смотреть. Идут колонной, на избы оглядываются, от своей
> печки  тепло  еще  на  себе  несут, ЧТО ОНИ ПЕРЕЖИВАЛИ - ведь в этих домах
> родились,   в  этих  домах  дочек  замуж  отдавали.
> 
> It is the words in capitals that I don’t understand.  Does the ‘chto’ refer
> to ‘teplo’ - as if the peasants have so deeply experienced this warmth that
> it has become
>  a part of them?  Or could the phrase be a question – something
> like ‘What on earth must they have been going through at this time?
> 
> Vsego dobrogo,
> 
> Robert
> 
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