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Re: [NABOKV-L] L (M, N) disaster in ADA: Lenin, Marx, Maykov and NabokovSKB: Tiny suggestion, Alexey. Gravis fuit vita, laevis sit ei terra" might be more poetically translated as
Hard his Life; May the Soil (aliter: Earth) lie on him Softly.
In Russian we say when burying the dead: Пусть земля будет ему пухом (May earth be light as fluff to him). Otherwise, I'm not concerned with the Earth/Soil dilemma, only with the phenomenon of Terra as Demonia's twin planet/otherworld. I believe that in this respect Petrashevski's epitaph matters, just as Zola's novel La Terre* does. But you, Stan (glad to see you contradicting me again), don't get my point anyway.
As to Solzhenitsyn, VN didn't consider him a great writer (or even a bright person) but acknowledged his heroism (see Selected Letters, p. 496 et passim). I'm not an expert on the subject and hope that someone with better English and deeper knowledge will answer you question.
*In his preface to Maupassant's stories Tolstoy says: I don't believe what I am told in novels like La Terre. On Antiterra the very existence of Terra is questioned by sober minds. Btw., Tolstoy is the author of Франсуаза, the Russian version of Maupassant's Le Port, the story about a brother-and-sister incest. The phrase она твоя сестра ("she's your sister", meaning that the prostitute with whom Celestine's friend has spent the night is his, this other sailor's, sister) is Tolstoy's addition to Maupassant's text (see Chekhov's letters to Suvorin).
best,
Alexey
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Hard his Life; May the Soil (aliter: Earth) lie on him Softly.
In Russian we say when burying the dead: Пусть земля будет ему пухом (May earth be light as fluff to him). Otherwise, I'm not concerned with the Earth/Soil dilemma, only with the phenomenon of Terra as Demonia's twin planet/otherworld. I believe that in this respect Petrashevski's epitaph matters, just as Zola's novel La Terre* does. But you, Stan (glad to see you contradicting me again), don't get my point anyway.
As to Solzhenitsyn, VN didn't consider him a great writer (or even a bright person) but acknowledged his heroism (see Selected Letters, p. 496 et passim). I'm not an expert on the subject and hope that someone with better English and deeper knowledge will answer you question.
*In his preface to Maupassant's stories Tolstoy says: I don't believe what I am told in novels like La Terre. On Antiterra the very existence of Terra is questioned by sober minds. Btw., Tolstoy is the author of Франсуаза, the Russian version of Maupassant's Le Port, the story about a brother-and-sister incest. The phrase она твоя сестра ("she's your sister", meaning that the prostitute with whom Celestine's friend has spent the night is his, this other sailor's, sister) is Tolstoy's addition to Maupassant's text (see Chekhov's letters to Suvorin).
best,
Alexey
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