Question about Pasternak

[Svetlana Grenier]

Thank you very much, Zach!  I did not know that.  I'll publish anything I
find on the list.  Nadezhda Mandelstam speaks of Herzen's influence on
Mandelstam, but so far I have not found anything on Pasternak and Herzen,
beyond his words to Chukovskaia.  But the search continues!


On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 10:33 PM, Zachary Rewinski <
zachary.rewinski at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear Svetlana,
>
> As I'm sure you already know, Mandelstam references Herzen to conclude his
> "Заметки о поэзии," in which he responds to Сестра моя - жизнь:
>
> "Конечно, Герцен и Огарев, когда стояли на Воробьевых горах мальчиками,
> испытывали физиологически священный восторг пространства и птичьего полета.
> Поэзия Пастернака рассказала нам об этих минутах: это - блестящая Нике,
> перемещенная с Акрополя на Воробьевы горы."
>
> That said, I don't see a direct connection to Herzen in Pasternak's
> "Воробьевы горы" (of the same collection), nor am I sure that Mandelstam
> suggests any connection beyond the moment the poem captures.
>
> I also would be eager to hear answers to this question as well as for any
> information about Pasternak's attitudes towards and readings of other 19th
> century thinkers, especially Petr Kropotkin (I'm familiar with Smirnov's
> arguments in Роман тайн "Доктор Живаго").
>
> Zach Rewinski
> PhD Student
> Department of Slavic Languages and Literature
> University of Wisconsin-Madison
>
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