a fly on the dead
Carol Apollonio
flath at DUKE.EDU
Wed Jun 20 03:05:31 UTC 2007
maybe obliquely, the end of Dostoevsky's "Idiot":
В ногах сбиты были в комок какие то
кружева, а на белевших кружевах,
выглядывая из под простыни,
обозначался кончик обнаженной ноги;
он казался как бы выточнным из
мрамора и ужасно был неподвижен.
Князь глядел и чувствовал, что, чем
больше он глядит, тем еще мертвее и
тише становится в комнате. Вдруг
зажуужжала проснувшаяся муха,
пронеслась над кроватью и затихла у
изголовья. Князь вздрогнул.
On Jun 19, 2007, at 10:50 PM, Valery Belyanin wrote:
> Can it be "Golova professora Douela" after Soviet scifi writer
> Alexandr
> Belyaev?
>
> Valery Belyanin
>
> On 6/19/07, Evelina Mendelevich <emendelevich at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Dear Seelangers,
>> I had something of a deja vu when I read the following description of
>> Dignam's corpse in Joyce's Ulysses:
>> "His face got all grey instead of being red like it was and there
>> was a
>> fly
>> walking over it up to his eye."
>>
>> At first I was convinced I have seen a similar description of
>> death in
>> Tolstoy's Death of Ivan Ilyich, but I was wrong. As I am
>> struggling to
>> recollect were I have seen this fly-Chekhov? Turgenev?-I seem to
>> remember
>> that the episode I have in mind involves a husband dealing with a
>> wife's
>> death. of course, I might be wrong again.
>>
>> Any information (the title of the story/author) will be appreciated.
>>
>> Thank you in advance,
>> Evelina Mendelevich
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> ---
> Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription
> options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at:
> http://seelangs.home.comcast.net/
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> ---
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription
options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at:
http://seelangs.home.comcast.net/
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
More information about the SEELANG
mailing list