ogoncharovan

[Alina Israeli]

>       I have come across the following witticism attributed to Pushkin.
>
>       On the publication of Goncharov's "Obryv", a contemporary critic,
>after complaining how "utomilien"  and "skuchen"  it was, goes on to say
>that it
>had its "'chitatieli i v osobiennoscti chitatielnitsy. Mnogiye iz nikh
>ocharovany i (pripominaya staroye vyrazheniye Pushkina) ogoncharovany
>"Obryvom".

Pushkin said it about his future wife, Natalia Goncharova, not the author
of three O's: Ja vljublen, ja ocharovan, slovom, ja ogancharovan.

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 Alina Israeli
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