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Часть текста: et vos prêoccupations. Je vois qu'on parle de "Fidelio" l et d' "Armide" 2 dans les journaux s encore du travail pour vous! - Je m'en rêjouis de tout mon cœur, tout en redoutant un peu la fatigue de ce travail. - Vous chantez trois fois par semaine... N'est-ce pas trop? 3 -- Enfin, vous devez le savoir mieux que moi. - Paulinette est très exacte à me tenir au courant de ce que vous faites - et je lui en suis reconnaissant. Il paraît que vous avez trouvê un peu forte la somme que je lui ai envoyêe pour ses êtrennes: mais comme on m'a Payê mon roman 4 qui va paraître - le double du prix auquel 3e m'attendais - j'ai voulu faire profiter Paulinette de ce bênêfice imprêvu. - Au moins, la voilà dêbarrassêe de toutes ses petites dettes. Je vais vous communiquer un fait qui doit rester entre nous, car il me ferait rougir: j'ai vendu mon roman à l'êditeur du "Messager Russe" de Moscou - 16 000 francs (un volume de 200 pages!) C'est joli, n'est-ce pas? Eh bien! l'êditeur du "Contemporain" d'ici m'en a offert... juste le double, 32 000 francs!! - J'ai naturellement refusê, car l'affaire êtait dêjà conclue - mais pendant un grand quart d'heure il n'a pas voulu reprendre l'argent qu'il avait dêposê sur ma table 5 . - Cela ne prouve, bien entendu, qu'une seule chose: l'extrême pênurie des produits littêraires dans notre pays - et cela ne peut pas durer. - Le peu de personnes sachant tenir une plume profite, en attendant, de cette situation peu normale. - Encore une fois, que cela reste entre nous: je ne voudrais pas avoir l'air de me vanter d'une chose aussi accidentelle. Je ne suis pas beaucoup sorti tous ces jours-ci; j'ai travaillê à un assez long article sur...
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Часть текста: during the last hundred years. Its author, who usually writes under the name of Stchedrine, but whose real name is Saltykoff (a descendant, by the way, of the ancient family of Moscow Boyars of that name), after having, like many other writers suspected of propagating liberal opinions, undergone his time of persecution and of exile under the Emperor Nicholas, acquired a great deal of popularity by the publication, some fifteen years ago, of a series of sketches called Scenes of Provincial Life (Gubernskie Ocherki) , in which he lashed with indomitable vigour the numerous abuses then current under the name of Government and Justice. Saltykoff’s manner as a satirist somewhat resembles that of Juvenal. His laughter is bitter and strident, his raillery not unfrequently insulting. But, as we have already said, his violence often assumes the form of caricature. Now there are two kinds of caricature: that which exaggerates the truth, as with a magnifying glass, but which never entirely alters its nature, and that which more or less consciously deviates from the natural truth and proportion of fact. Saltykoff indulges in the first kind only, the only admissible one. It is the natural consequence of his character: kind and sensitive at bottom, but superficially rude. At the same time he is very delicate in his perceptions, which have something of instinct and divination...
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Часть текста: fewer sly strokes of wit, less cunning simplicity in telling a story, he has, on the other hand, more originality of invention. His observant good sense penetrates to the roots of things, and he possesses a genuine kind of phlegmatic humour which betrays the Oriental element in Slavonic nature. In his birth and all the circumstances of his life Krilof was as Russian as possible: he was essentially national in his ways of thinking, feeling, and writing; and it may be maintained without exaggeration that a foreigner who has carefully studied Krilof’s fables will have a better idea of the Russian national character than if he had read through all the travels and essays that attempt to describe it. Russian children learn Krilof by heart as French ones do La Fontaine, without entering into all the wisdom of his teaching, but in later life they return to him with double profit. Like La Fontaine, but to a still greater degree, Krilof has supplied the public conscience with a number of precepts and adages and sayings which have become proverbial even in the mouth of unlettered peasants; no one is oftener quoted than he, and, like the Bible and Shakespeare in England, those who quote him have often no idea of their obligation — proof positive that his work has been completely absorbed into the national popular life from which it sprung. The present day offers no higher reward to literary ambition than this faint reflection of the past grandeur of epic poetry, which is only great...