Quote Attibuted to Pushkin

[Carol Ueland]

Once more, in transliteration only: 

     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, Vse na golovu moiu .  The
phrase appears in Kushner’s poem V otchaian’e ili v bede, bede in the
following context:
 
Nazvan’ia  khochesh’ znat’ nechastii?  Utaiu
Ikh; kust klubitsia tolstokozhii.
Как там, у Pushkina, “vsenaglavumoiu…” 
Chto vse?  Ne sprashivai: u vsekh odno i to zhe. 
 
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.e. it may be attributed to Pushkin but not in any of his
own written works.  I’m stumped --any guesses?  
 
Many thanks, Carol
 
 
Dr. Carol R. Ueland
Professor of Russian
Coordinator of Russian Program
Chair, Dept. of German, Russian, Chinese and Arabic

>>> Carol Ueland <cueland at DREW.EDU> 3/21/2011 4:46 PM >>>
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, “Всё
на голо&#1074;у
мою”/ Vse na golovu moiu
.  The phrase appears in Kushner’s poem “В
отчаянье
или в беде,
беде,”/ V
otchaian’e ili v bede, bede in the following context:

В отчаянье
или в беде,
бе&#1076;е,
Названья
хочеш&#1100;
знать
несчаст&#1080;й?
Утаю
Их; куст
&#1082;лубится
толстокожий.
Как там, &#1091;
Пушкина:
«всё на
главу мою…»
Что всё? &#1053;е
спрашивай: у
в&#1089;ех одно и
то же.

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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