Saussure

[Devin Fore]

The Russian translation of Saussure's Course wouldn't appear until  
1933, although Aleksandr Romm, a member of the Moscow Linguistic  
Circle, was working on a translation of Saussure's work that was  
already in circulation among members of the Circle by 1922. In 1923  
Grigorii Vinokur, who was then chair of the MLK, published an essay in  
LEF (no. 3, 1923) entitled “Poetika. Lingvistika. Sotsiologiia.  
(Metologicheskaia spravka)" which engaged explicitly with Saussure's  
work.

besides Vinokur, other central figures in Russian Saussure reception  
were:
-- Sergei Kartsevskii, who was a professor of Russian at Geneva  
University
-- A. K. Solov’ev, who was a member of the MLK and who studied with  
Bally in Geneva in the 1910s. There was an epistolary exchange between  
Solov’ev and Bally about who will translate the Course into Russian.
-- and of course Roman Jakobson.

more details in the following essay:
E. A. Toddes and M. O. Chudakova, “Pervyi russkii perevod Kursa  
obshchei lingvistikii F. de Sossiura i deiatel’nost’ Moskovskogo  
Lingvisticheskogo Kruzhka,” in Fedorovskie Chteniia (Moscow: Nauka,  
1978).

Best, Devin Fore


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On Mar 16, 2009, at 11:15 AM, eric r laursen wrote:

> Does anyone know when Saussure's ideas first became popular in  
> Russia?  --E.Laursen
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