Russian commonplace books
Edward M Dumanis
dumanis at BUFFALO.EDU
Sat Sep 22 04:33:42 UTC 2007
That was on my mind as well but as "knizhitsa vsjakoj vsjachiny."
However, I have no idea whether this expression would ring a bell in
contemporary Russia.
Edward Dumanis <dumanis at buffalo.edu>
On Fri, 21 Sep 2007, Matthew Walker wrote:
> With a bow towards Gogol... how about книга всякой всячины?
>
> Matt Walker
> UW-Madison
>
> Sergey Karpukhin wrote:
>
>> There is the excellent Russian tradition of keeping a notebook, zapisnaya
>> knizhka, and, as far as Russian literature is concerned, it's at least 200
>> years old (Prince P.A. Vyazemsky's notebook, for example). Granted, the
>> genre differs from that of the commonplace book in that it is firmly
>> embedded in the high-culture literary canon, unlike the commonplace books
>> of
>> the Elizabethans, for instance. In the 20th C Russian literature we have
>> remarkable exemplars of such "intermediary" literature, up to and including
>> M.L. Gasparov's Zapisi i vypiski.
>> Samuel Beckett called his multilingual commonplace book (writer's working
>> notebook, rather) a sottisier. Sounds like a good translation, but not
>> necessarily the same thing.
>>
>> Just a couple of thoughts.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Sergey Karpukhin
>> University of Wisconsin-Madison
>>
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