Andrey Bely possible connection ad GR in Russian

[Max Nemtsov]

))) in Petersburg they are

On 20.04.2012 15:50, Mark Kohut wrote:
> BTW, you had me at silly songs.......
>
> *From:* Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
> *To:* Max Nemtsov <max.nemtsov at gmail.com>; pynchon -l 
> <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> *Sent:* Friday, April 20, 2012 7:25 AM
> *Subject:* Re: Andrey Bely possible connection ad GR in Russian
>
> Great Congratulations! An achievement of hard work and well-won honor. 
> Much harder than our plist probes, but thank you for thanking us.
>
> I've got a couple FACEBOOK friends in Russia, I'll try to sell them on 
> getting a copy....more info?
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Max Nemtsov <max.nemtsov at gmail.com <mailto:max.nemtsov at gmail.com>>
> To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org <mailto:pynchon-l at waste.org>>
> Cc:
> Sent: Friday, April 20, 2012 6:34 AM
> Subject: Andrey Bely possible connection ad GR in Russian
>
> 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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