Andrey Bely possible connection ad GR in Russian

[James Kyllo]

Hmm - I've got Petersburg cued up to be read next - this makes it seem
even more to-be-looked-forward-to

to have completed a translation is very impressive, congratulations!


J



On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 11:34 AM, Max Nemtsov <max.nemtsov at gmail.com> wrote:
> Colleagues, has anyone explored the possible connection of GR and Andrey
> Bely's Petersburg (1913) in true detail? I don't seem to be able to find
> anything, apart from Belorussian researcher Alexey Lalo's rather brief and
> (to my mind) superficial notice on satire and historicism in PN. The theme
> seems valid to me (again, I may be inventing bicycle, so to say), for I have
> recently re-read Petersburg, and was astonished to find many stylistic
> parallels, from the construction of dialogues to the use of silly songs, and
> a whole array of key symbols (including Baedeker, bombs, zeroes, streets and
> crowds, etc.). What seems to support the idea, is the fact that TRP's
> possible mentor Nabokov thought Petersburg to be the greatest Russian
> modernist novel of the 20th century, and an English translation (the first
> one?) by John Kournos had been available in 1959, so TRP might have read it.
> The connection with another Russian novel (We, by Zamyatin) had already been
> inspected, I know. So - please suggest if anything exists in the canon of
> Pynchon studies ))
>
> On the informational note, you might be also interested to know that we
> (Anastasia Gryzunova and myself) have finally finished the Russian
> translation of GR, and the book is due some time this summer, published by
> Eksmo Publishers in Moscow. Among other people we are grateful to, there are
> all members of this list, which fact is duly noted in our acknowledgements
> )) Thank you guys, you've been of huge help to us, and the archives of the
> list were in many instances invaluable.
>
> Mx
>



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