Kreutzer translation problem

[William Ryan]

A typo for zhena? I don't have the print copy to hand but an internet 
version of the text has zheshchina-zhena.

Will Ryan

On 28/08/2012 09:38, R. M. Cleminson wrote:
> ...  What really worries me, however, is жено, which ought to be a vocative but clearly isn't. Can anyone offer an explanation for this form?
>
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> Od: "Michael R. Katz" <mkatz at MIDDLEBURY.EDU>
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> 	Dear Colleagues:
>>> I am puzzling over one phrase in Chapter 1 of Tolstoy's Kreutzer
>>> Sonata.
>>> Here's the lead up in English and the quote in Russian.
>>> It's the second clause I don't get:
>>>
>>> “That’s the way you men think,” the lady said, not yielding and
>>> glancing at us. “You’ve given yourselves freedom, but you want to
>>> lock women up in a tower. Then I suppose you permit yourselves
>>> everything.”
>>> "Позволения никто не дает, а только что от мужчины в доме ничего не
>>> прибудет, а женщина-жено — утлый сосуд —," продолжал внушать купец.
>>>
>>> The Maudes says "but a man doesn't bring offspring into the
>>> home."
>>> David McDuff says: "it's just that home profits nothing from a
>>> man's endeavors."
>>> Pevear and Volokhonsky say: 'it's only that a man doesn't bring
>>> additions to the household."
>>>
>>> Does anyone have an idea for what he is talking about?
>>>
>>> 	Michael Katz
> 		Middlebury College
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