“The Big Book of Errors” (New Collected Works of Vladimir Narbut)

This review of the newly published book “Vladimir Narbut. Poetry. Translations. Prose” (Roman Kozhukharov, ed., Moscow, 2018) evaluates the textual criticism methods applied to this collection, reflects on the quality of the commentaries and the preface essay, and reveals a remarkable number of flaw...

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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:44686b0e901b411fa5043e438d9984d22021-11-24T08:33:19Z“The Big Book of Errors” (New Collected Works of Vladimir Narbut)10.22455/2541-8297-2020-17-366-3862541-82972542-2421https://doaj.org/article/44686b0e901b411fa5043e438d9984d22020-09-01T00:00:00Zhttp://litfact.ru/images/2020-17/LF-2020-3-17_366-386_Besprozvanny.pdfhttps://doaj.org/toc/2541-8297https://doaj.org/toc/2542-2421This review of the newly published book “Vladimir Narbut. Poetry. Translations. Prose” (Roman Kozhukharov, ed., Moscow, 2018) evaluates the textual criticism methods applied to this collection, reflects on the quality of the commentaries and the preface essay, and reveals a remarkable number of flaws the new edition has: the altered structure of the poetic cycles, chronological and bibliographical errors, and issues with text variants. The editor demonstrates little regard for the textual accuracy, and employs a self-contradictory strategy for the versions and drafts of the poetic texts. The commentaries that supply the book lack merely a professional approach: some are too detailed (or too telegraphic), others disconnect from the context, and some are irrelevant or misguided. The latter is particularly true for the Russian-Ukrainian interlingual homographs and homonyms, and ethnographic realia. The long-winded preface essay provides a detailed overview of the poet’s life, and is full of debatable esoteric assumptions and preposterous conclusions.Vadim G. BesprozvannyRussian Academy of Sciences. A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literaturearticlevladimir narbuttextual criticismeditions of the poet’s literary heritagecommentariesreviewsLiterature (General)PN1-6790Slavic languages. Baltic languages. Albanian languagesPG1-9665ENRUЛитературный факт, Iss 3 (17), Pp 366-386 (2020)
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topic vladimir narbut
textual criticism
editions of the poet’s literary heritage
commentaries
reviews
Literature (General)
PN1-6790
Slavic languages. Baltic languages. Albanian languages
PG1-9665
spellingShingle vladimir narbut
textual criticism
editions of the poet’s literary heritage
commentaries
reviews
Literature (General)
PN1-6790
Slavic languages. Baltic languages. Albanian languages
PG1-9665
Vadim G. Besprozvanny
“The Big Book of Errors” (New Collected Works of Vladimir Narbut)
description This review of the newly published book “Vladimir Narbut. Poetry. Translations. Prose” (Roman Kozhukharov, ed., Moscow, 2018) evaluates the textual criticism methods applied to this collection, reflects on the quality of the commentaries and the preface essay, and reveals a remarkable number of flaws the new edition has: the altered structure of the poetic cycles, chronological and bibliographical errors, and issues with text variants. The editor demonstrates little regard for the textual accuracy, and employs a self-contradictory strategy for the versions and drafts of the poetic texts. The commentaries that supply the book lack merely a professional approach: some are too detailed (or too telegraphic), others disconnect from the context, and some are irrelevant or misguided. The latter is particularly true for the Russian-Ukrainian interlingual homographs and homonyms, and ethnographic realia. The long-winded preface essay provides a detailed overview of the poet’s life, and is full of debatable esoteric assumptions and preposterous conclusions.
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