An Unpublished Tolstoj Manuscript: The First Draft of Lev Tolstoj’s Tale King Asarhaddon (1903) and the Commentary of Boris Ėjchenbaum

The essay deals with the original version, largely unpublished, of the comment that Boris Ėjchenbaum (1886-1959) wrote for Tolstoj’s Three Tales (Tri skazki) for the Complete Collected Works (PSS, XXXIV, Moscow 1952). The document includes an extended and more detailed version of the comment that la...

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Main Author: Roberta De Giorgi
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Language:English
Published: Firenze University Press 2020-05-01
Series:Studi Slavistici
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Online Access:https://oaj.fupress.net/index.php/ss/article/view/8297
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description The essay deals with the original version, largely unpublished, of the comment that Boris Ėjchenbaum (1886-1959) wrote for Tolstoj’s Three Tales (Tri skazki) for the Complete Collected Works (PSS, XXXIV, Moscow 1952). The document includes an extended and more detailed version of the comment that later appeared in the PSS. All the critical apparatus of PSS was cut by at least 30 percent at the time of the change in editorial policy, in 1939. This fate also affected the meticulous work of Ėjchenbaum, presently preserved in his personal collection in Moscow (RGALI: fond 1527, opis 2, edinica chranenija 23, 66l.). This essay focuses on the textual history of of King Assarhadon (Assirijskij car’ Asarchadon, 1903), the first of the Three Tales. The comment by Ėjchenbaum under consideration was written directly on the Tolstoian manuscript (L.N. Tolstoj, Tri skazki, Otdel rukopisej – Gosudarstvennyj Muzej L.N. Tolstogo, fond 1, ruk. 1). Hence, it included the unpublished first draft of the tale (A), which constitutes the initial stage of Tolstoj’s quest to depict (and condemn) evil, revived in a remote history with exotic contours.
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spelling doaj.art-803055dfab404e1ba685786e786fe1da2022-12-21T21:04:07ZengFirenze University PressStudi Slavistici1824-761X1824-76012020-05-0117110.13128/Studi_Slavis-8297An Unpublished Tolstoj Manuscript: The First Draft of Lev Tolstoj’s Tale King Asarhaddon (1903) and the Commentary of Boris ĖjchenbaumRoberta De GiorgiThe essay deals with the original version, largely unpublished, of the comment that Boris Ėjchenbaum (1886-1959) wrote for Tolstoj’s Three Tales (Tri skazki) for the Complete Collected Works (PSS, XXXIV, Moscow 1952). The document includes an extended and more detailed version of the comment that later appeared in the PSS. All the critical apparatus of PSS was cut by at least 30 percent at the time of the change in editorial policy, in 1939. This fate also affected the meticulous work of Ėjchenbaum, presently preserved in his personal collection in Moscow (RGALI: fond 1527, opis 2, edinica chranenija 23, 66l.). This essay focuses on the textual history of of King Assarhadon (Assirijskij car’ Asarchadon, 1903), the first of the Three Tales. The comment by Ėjchenbaum under consideration was written directly on the Tolstoian manuscript (L.N. Tolstoj, Tri skazki, Otdel rukopisej – Gosudarstvennyj Muzej L.N. Tolstogo, fond 1, ruk. 1). Hence, it included the unpublished first draft of the tale (A), which constitutes the initial stage of Tolstoj’s quest to depict (and condemn) evil, revived in a remote history with exotic contours.https://oaj.fupress.net/index.php/ss/article/view/8297TolstojĖjchenbaumAsarhaddon
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Ėjchenbaum
Asarhaddon
title An Unpublished Tolstoj Manuscript: The First Draft of Lev Tolstoj’s Tale King Asarhaddon (1903) and the Commentary of Boris Ėjchenbaum
title_full An Unpublished Tolstoj Manuscript: The First Draft of Lev Tolstoj’s Tale King Asarhaddon (1903) and the Commentary of Boris Ėjchenbaum
title_fullStr An Unpublished Tolstoj Manuscript: The First Draft of Lev Tolstoj’s Tale King Asarhaddon (1903) and the Commentary of Boris Ėjchenbaum
title_full_unstemmed An Unpublished Tolstoj Manuscript: The First Draft of Lev Tolstoj’s Tale King Asarhaddon (1903) and the Commentary of Boris Ėjchenbaum
title_short An Unpublished Tolstoj Manuscript: The First Draft of Lev Tolstoj’s Tale King Asarhaddon (1903) and the Commentary of Boris Ėjchenbaum
title_sort unpublished tolstoj manuscript the first draft of lev tolstoj s tale king asarhaddon 1903 and the commentary of boris ejchenbaum
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Ėjchenbaum
Asarhaddon
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