Sicily

[Rebecca Jane Stanton]

Valentin Kataev uses a trip to Sicily as a jumping-off point for some of 
his "Mauvist" blurring of life and fiction in _Almaznyi moi venets_ 
(1979; in the 1990 Moscow edition, this section starts somewhere around 
p. 20; the full text is available [in Russian] at
http://www.lib.ru/PROZA/KATAEW/almazn.txt ). 
He also (mis)quotes a Bagritsky poem, "Dionysus," that he supposes to be 
set in Sicily (available here:
http://www.litera.ru/stixiya/razval/bagrickij.html#tam-gde-vystup ). 
As far as I know the book hasn't been translated.

RJS

-- 
Rebecca Stanton
Assistant Professor of Russian
Dept. of Slavic Languages
Barnard College
Columbia University
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http://www.columbia.edu/~rjs19 

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