Paul Debreczeny: In memoriam

[Madeline Levine]

I write to share the sad news that Paul Debreczeny, Alumni Distinguished
Professor Emeritus of Russian and Comparative Literature at UNC-Chapel Hill,
died on March 18th.  Paul was one of the founders of the UNC-CH Department
of Slavic Languages and Literatures, served as department chair in the
1970s, and remained as devoted in retirement to the Department's development
as he had been during his years of active service. He was also the founding
Director of the UNC-Duke Title VI Center for Slavic, Eurasian, and East
European Studies.  Paul was an internationally recognized scholar, known
especially for his studies of Pushkin: THE OTHER PUSHKIN: A STUDY OF
ALEXANDER PUSHKIN'S PROSE FICTION (1983), SOCIAL FUNCTIONS OF LITERATURE:
ALEXANDER PUSHKIN AND RUSSIAN CULTURE (1997),and his translations of
Pushkin's COLLECTED PROSE (1983, rev. 1999). After Paul retired, he turned
to a study of the life and paintings of Levitan, completing a book-length
biography of the painter shortly before his death. His many friends and
colleagues will miss his wide-ranging critical intelligence and gentle,
engaged presence. 

Madeline G. Levine
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

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