image of the foreigner

[Deborah Hoffman]

Of minor note - Specific mention is made that Anna Sergeyevna's husband in Dama s sobachkoi is an "obrusevshii nemets" (or maybe it was his grandfather). "No sam on pravoslavnyi."
   
   
   
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  Date:    Wed, 19 Mar 2008 18:52:16 -0400
From:    Sergey Glebov <sglebov at SMITH.EDU>
Subject: Re: SEELANGS Digest - 19 Mar 2008 - Special issue (#2008-111)

I wonder, though, why would Shtol'ts be considered a foreigner? J 

 

Sergey Glebov

 

Alina Israeli wrote:

 

Germans in Queen of Spades, Turgenev's Asja, Oblomov. There must be
 more
Germans out there, can't think of any others though.

 

Nakanune has a Bulgarian.

 

Povesti Belkina has an Englishwoman, Dubrovskij has a French.

 

Chekhov has Doch' Albiona.

 

 

Alina Israeli

LFS, American University

4400 Massachusetts Ave., NW

Washington DC. 20016

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fax (202) 885-1076

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Deborah Hoffman, Esq.
Russian > English Legal and Literary Translations

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