Nikolai Zabolotsky: Enigma and Cultural Paradigm

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Notes PREFACE l. Joseph Brodsky, cited in Darra Goldstein, Nikolai Zabolotsky: Play for Mortal Stakes (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993), pp. 233, 290, note 34. 2. An extremely useful compendium of Zabolotsky's works and various materials relevant to his life and works is Nikolai Zabolotskii, "Ogon', mertsaiushchii v sosude ...": Stikhotvoreniia i poemy. Perevody. Pis'ma i stat'i. Zhizneopisanie. Vospominaniia sovremmenikov. Analiz tvorchestva, ed. Nikita Zabolotskii (Moscow: Pedagogika Press, 1995). CHAPTER ONE 1. The incident is described in Igor' Bakhterev, "Kogda my byli molodymi (Nevydumannyi rasskaz)," in Vospominaniia 0 Zabolotskom, ed. E. V. Zabolotskaia and A. V. Makedonov (Moscow: Sovetskii pisatel', 1977; expanded ed. 1984), pp. 61-62. All references will be to the 1977 edition unless otherwise noted. The most eccentric member ofthe group described was Daniil Kharms, the dashing lover of women and cards was Aleksandr Vvedenskii, and the one who wanted to look like David Burliuk "only with two eyes" was Igor' Bakhterev. The description of Zabolotskii's physical appearance is adapted from Nikolai Stepanov's articles, "Vsegda priamoi," Literaturnaia Rossiia, no. 51 (1965), p. 18, and "Nikolai Zabolotskii" in Nikolai Zabolotskii, Izbrannye proizvedeniia v dvukh tomakh (Moscow: Khudozhestvennaia literatura, 1972), vol. 1, p. 5, hereafter called Izbrannye. 2. Natal'ia Roskina, "Nikolai Zabolotskii," in Roskina, Chetyre glavy: iz literaturnykh vospominanii (Paris: YMCA Press, 1980), p. 93. D. Maksimov , "Nikolai Zabolotskii. Ob odnoi davnei vstreche," Zvezda, no. 4 (1984), pp. 133-39, also in the 1984 edition of Vospominaniia 0 Zabolotskom. I. Rakhtanov, "Iz proshlogo detskoi zhurnalistiki," Detskaia literatura, no. 2 (1962), p. 155. Pavel Antokol'skii, "Skol'ko zim i let," in Vospominaniia 0 Zabolotskom, p. 137. Iraklii Andronikov, "Nikolai Alekseich," in Vospominaniia 0 Zabolotskom, p. 133. Robin Milner-Gulland, "Introduction," in 243 Notes to Pages 2-3 Nikita Zabolotsky, The Life of Zabolotsky, ed. R. R. Milner-Gulland, trans. R. R. Milner-Gulland and C. G. Bearne (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1994), p. viii. 3. Lidiia Ginzburg, Chelovek za pis'mennym stolom (Leningrad: Sovetskii pisatel', 1989), p. 81. 4. For a detailed discussion of Zabolotskii's arrest and experience in camp, see Goldstein, Nikolai Zabolotsky, pp. 86-98; Nikolai Zabolotsky, "The Story of My Imprisonment," trans. Robin Milner-Gulland, Times Literary Supplement, October 9, 1981, pp. 1179-81; Sil'va Gitovich, "Arest N. A. Zabolotskogo," in Pamiat' (Paris, 1982), pp. 336-53. 5. Simon Chikovani, "Vernyi drug gruzinskoi poezii," in Vospominaniia 0 Zabolotskom, p. 164. 6. Boris Filippov, "Nikolai Alekseevich Zabolotsky," in Handbook of Russian Literature, ed. Victor Terras (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985), p. 525. 7. A. V. Makedonov, Nikolai Zabolotskii. Zhizn', tvorchestvo, metamorfozy (Leningrad: Sovetskii pisatel, 1968; expanded ed. 1987), p. 4. References are to the 1968 edition unless otherwise noted. 8. Margarita Aliger, "Prokhozhii," in Vospominaniia 0 Zabolotskom, p.209. 9. A. Dymshits, "0 dvukh Zabolotskikh," Literaturnaia gazeta, December 15, 1937. 10. V. Orlov, "Nikolai Zabolotskii (1903-1958)," in Nikolai Zabolotskii , Stikhotvoreniia (Moscow: Gosudarstvennoe izdatel'stvo khudozhestvennoi literatury, 1959), p. 8. See also A. Mikhailov, "Ot slozhnosti k prostote," Znamia, no. 6 (1969), pp. 222-39. 11. Simon Karlinsky, "Surrealism in Twentieth-Century Russian Poetry : Churilin, Zabolotskii, Poplavskii," Slavic Review, vol. 26, no. 4 (December 1967), pp. 605-17. Robin Milner-Gulland, "Grandsons of Kozma Prutkov: Reflections on Zabolotsky, Oleynikov, and Their Circle," in Russian and Slavic Literature, ed. Richard Freeborn (Cambridge, Mass.: Slavica , 1976); Robin Milner-Gulland, "Left Art in Leningrad: The OBERIU Declaration," Oxford Slavonic Papers, New Series, vol. 3 (Oxford, 1970), pp. 65-75. Irene Masing-Delic, Abolishing Death: A Salvation Myth of Russian Twentieth-Century Literature (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1992), chap. 10; "The Chickens Also Want to Live": A Motif in Zabolockij's Columns," Slavic and East European Journal, vol. 31, no. 3 (1987), pp. 356-69; "Some Themes and Motifs in N. Zabolockij's Stolbcy," Scando-Slavica, vol. 20 (1974), pp. 13-25; "Zabolockij's Occult Poem 'Carica mukh,'" Svantevit, Dansk Tideskrift for Slavistik, Argang III, Nr. 1 (Copenhagen, 1977), pp. 21-38. Fiona Bjorling, "Stolbcy" by Nikolai Zabolockij : Analyses, Stockholm Slavic Studies, no. 8 (Stockholm: Almkvist & Wiksell, 1973); Anna Ljunggren, "Oblich'ya smerti: k interpretatsii stikhot244 Notes to Pages 3-4 voreniya N. Zabolotskogo 'Ofort,'" Scando-Slavica, vol. 27 (1971), pp. 171-77; Sarah Pratt, "A Vegetable Gospel and Some Notes on Zabolotskii and Tot svet," in Christianity and the Culture of the Eastern Slavs, ed. Hughes, Gasparov, Paperno (Berkeley: University ofCalifornia Press, 1995). Among the few articles that focus...