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Re: Don Aminado & VN (fwd)
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From: Alexander Dolinin <dolinin@facstaff.wisc.edu>
There is a humorous allusion to Don Aminado in the Russian version
of *The Gift*. When in the last chapter Fyodor begins to fall asleep to the
whisper of the rain and all sorts of verbal rejects break into his
semi-conscious mind, he rhymes an awful "ispolin iasnopoliansky" (Yasnaia
Poliana's giant, that is Leo Tolstoy---[Yasnaya Polyana was the name of
Tolstoy's country estate]) with Don Aminado's real name Shpolyansky.
Alexander Dolinin
There is a humorous allusion to Don Aminado in the Russian version
of *The Gift*. When in the last chapter Fyodor begins to fall asleep to the
whisper of the rain and all sorts of verbal rejects break into his
semi-conscious mind, he rhymes an awful "ispolin iasnopoliansky" (Yasnaia
Poliana's giant, that is Leo Tolstoy---[Yasnaya Polyana was the name of
Tolstoy's country estate]) with Don Aminado's real name Shpolyansky.
Alexander Dolinin