History of Russian Literary Language

[Glen Worthey]

I haven't looked at it for a while, but I remember *really* liking Boris
Gasparov's book "Poeticheskii iazyk Pushkina kak fakt istorii russkogo
literaturnogo iazyka," published as Wiener slawistischer Almanach, 27 (1992).

>illustration of interpretation of language development seen from
>the Marxist standpoint). $B!! (JIn parallel with this, the idolization of
> Pushkin was established.
>
While you seem not to care too much for Pushkin-worship, Gasparov's
book as I remember it really is very interesting, aware, sensitive, and
certainly not Marxist in any narrow sense.

Glen Worthey
Berkeley