Quote Attibuted to Pushkin

Carol Ueland cueland at DREW.EDU
Mon Mar 21 20:59:12 UTC 2011


Sorry, let me try this again. I have already tried your suggestion. 
thanks, Carol
 
Dr. Carol R. Ueland
Professor of Russian
Coordinator of Russian Program
Chair, Dept. of German, Russian, Chinese and Arabic

>>> "Ivan S. Eubanks" <ieubanks at PUSHKINIANA.ORG> 3/21/2011 4:56 PM >>>
I couldn't read any of the Russian text in your email, unfortunately, 
but you might try looking up one or more of the words in /Slovar'
iazyka 
Pushkina/.  If the quote is correct, you should be able to track it
down 
that way.


Ivan S. Eubanks
/Pushkin Review / ?????????? ???????/ <http://www.pushkiniana.org>

On 3/21/2011 4:46 PM, Carol Ueland wrote:
> Dear Pushkinisty!
>
>
>       I'm preparing notes to some of my recent translations of poetry
by
> Aleksandr Kushner and have been trying to track down a reference in a
lyric.
>   It's a quote attributed to Pushkin,
"Всёнаголо&#1074;умою"/
Vse na golovu moiu
> .  The phrase appears in Kushner's poem
"Вотчаяньеиливбеде,беде,"/
V
> otchaian'e ili v bede, bede in the following context:
>
>
Вотчаяньеиливбеде,бе&#1076;е,
>
Названьяхочеш&#1100;знатьнесчаст&#1080;й?Утаю
>
Их;куст&#1082;лубитсятолстокожий.
>
Кактам,&#1091;Пушкина:
«всёнаглавумою...»
>
Чтовсё?&#1053;еспрашивай:ув&#1089;еходноитоже.
>
> The line does not appear in Shaw's Concordance and the usual quote
searches
> on Yandex and Google.ru haven't produced a likely match.  I've asked
the
> poet and he vaguely remembers it cited by a friend of Pushkin's. 
I'm
> stumped --any guesses?
>
> Many thanks, Carol
>
>
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