Mamin-Sibiriak rides again

[Anne Fisher]

Dear Muireann,

This is of no help to your student, but I can't help contributing the tidbit
that when Nikolai Erdman was exiled for 3 years to Yeniseisk (and then
Tomsk), he used to sign his letters home "Mamin Sibiriak."

Annie

On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 6:33 PM, Muireann Maguire <mm504 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> A final year undergraduate of mine is putting together a long essay (7500
> words) on the nineteenth-century novelist and journalist Dmitrii
> Mamin-Sibiriak (now quite obscure). He has done a lot of research in Perm
> and Ekaterinburg on the writer's archives, and is now attempting to situate
> him in a wider context - both the literary context (other fiction
> contemporary with Mamin-Sibiriak's and on similar themes) and the
> historical
> context (oblastnichestvo, the rise of zemstvos). As my student puts it in
> his own words:
>
> "I'm researching the late 19th-century author Dmitri Mamin-Sibiriak with
> the
> aim of placing him in a literary and historical context.
> I'm looking for works which examine the morality of industrial development
> and the role of the intelligentsia.
> In addition, it would be useful to find literary representations of
> provincial identity to compare with Mamin-Sibiriak's work. Any historical
> material on any of these themes would also be very much appreciated"
>
> If you have any suggestions for his project, please reply on- or off-list
> to
> me at muireann.maguire at googlemail.com
>
> Best wishes to all,
>
> Muireann Maguire
> Career Development Fellow and Tutor in Russian
> Wadham College, University of Oxford
>
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Anne O. Fisher, Ph.D.
Russian Interpreter and Translator
anne.o.fisher at gmail.com
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