Chevengur: "radosti nad vsemi gumnami"

[Robert Chandler]

Ah, at last I feel I've fully understood this!  Many, many thanks - this makes a huge difference!!

Vsego samogo dobrogo,

Robert


On 15 Apr 2012, at 19:33, Rad Borislavov wrote:

> Dear Robert,
> 
> If I may add a note in line with earlier suggestions about the
> translation of "nad" but concerning the words just before the
> preposition--it seems that  "но не хватало" refers to a general lack
> of joy over the threshing floors, which prevented Dostoevsky from
> imagining socialism, rather than to  Dostoevsky (i.e. that he lacked
> something).
> 
> All the best,
> 
> Rad Borislavov
> University of Chicago
> 
> On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 7:01 AM, Robert Chandler <kcf19 at dial.pipex.com> wrote:
>> Dear all,
>> 
>> Can anyone help me with this odd use of the preposition "nad"?  I feel there
>> must be something I have not understood.
>> 
>> Дванов помог Достоевскому вообразить социализм малодворными артельными
>> поселками с общими приусадебными наделами. Достоевский уже все принял, но не
>> хватало какой-то общей радости над всеми гумнами, чтобы воображение будущего
>> стало любовью и теплом, чтобы совесть и нетерпение взошли силой внутри его
>> тела - от временного отсутствия социализма наяву.
>> 
>> Dvanov helped Dostoevsky to imagine socialism in the form of small
>> collective settlements with shared parcels of land.  Dostoevsky had already
>> accepted everything, but he lacked some kind of general joy over all the
>> threshing floors that could have made his imagination of the future become
>> love and warmth, that could have made conscience and impatience arise as a
>> force inside his body - given the temporary absence of socialism in reality.
>> 
>> All the best, and thanks in advance!
>> 
>> Robert
>> 
>> Robert Chandler, 42 Milson Road, London, W14 OLD
>> 
>> 
>> 
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