Boiling with an impatient enmity,
at home the poet for the answer
waits.
And here the grandiloquent neighbor
has brought the answer solemnly.
(EO, Six: XII:
1-4)
grandiloquent neighbor / sosed
velerechivyi: I notice that Zaretski was linked up in Pushkin's mind with
the hero of Vasiliy Pushkin's The Dangerous Neighbor (see n. to Five:
XXVI: 9), Buyanov making a speech at the bordello (l. 58):
Ni s mesta - prodolzhal sosed
velerechivyi...
"Stir not," went on the grandiloquent
neighbor...
(EO Commentary, Part II, p. 19)
In Pale Fire, Kinbote is Shade's grandiloquent and
the Soviet Russia Zembla's dangerous sosed (neighbor).
Buyanov + altyn = Tynyanov + blau
(Buyanov - the hero of Vasiliy Pushkin's The
Dangerous Neighbor; a character in EO, Pushkin's cousin; altyn - Tatar, gold; Russ., three kopeck coin; blau - Germ., blue; Tynyanov -
the author of "Pushkin," Vasiliy Pushkin being a character in
this biographical novel, and Wax Person, the story's
title reminding one of PF's waxwing)
Alexey Sklyarenko