Train journeys in C19 Russian literature

[Simon Beattie]

This isn't fiction, but a nice story nonetheless.  When Rilke was going to
visit Tolstoy in 1899 he met Leonid Pasternak on the train, with a
nine-year-old Boris in tow.  Of course, years later the two poets would
correspond and BLP translated Rilke into Russian.

 

Simon

 

 

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[mailto:SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Svetlana Grenier
Sent: 24 November 2012 17:34
To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Train journeys in C19 Russian literature

 

Dear Rolbert, 

Since you said obvious is OK, the first thing that comes to mind is
Tolstoy's "The Kreutzer Sonata" (confession in a train compartment).  There
may have been some confessions exchanged between Anna and Countess Vronsky
during their trip to Moscow at the beginning of AK, but we don't see them;
we just hear that they spoke "about their sons." In that vein, in AK Karenin
and Levin share a compartment (in part IV), but no confessions take place.
Then there is Rogozhin who tells Prince Myshkin of his love for Nastassia
Filippovna on a train, but I don't remember whether there is a compartment
or not.

All the best, 
Svetlana

On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 10:44 AM, Robert Chandler <kcf19 at dial.pipex.com>
wrote:

Dear all,

I am posting this on behalf of the editors of Hidden Europe, an excellent
small magazine.  They are wanting to write an article about trains in C19
Russian literature and are especially interested in examples of train
compartments being used as confessionals


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