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,
"Всёнаголовумою"/
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,беде,
>
Названьяхочешьзнатьнесчастий?Утаю
>
Их;кустклубитсятолстокожий.
>
Кактам,уПушкина:
«всёнаглавумою...»
>
Чтовсё?Неспрашивай:увсеходноитоже.
>
> 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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