Chevengur: "radosti nad vsemi gumnami"

[Sasha Spektor]

I think Rad is right on.
Best,
Sasha.

2012/4/15 Robert Chandler <kcf19 at dial.pipex.com>

> 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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