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Alexander Graf. Das Selbstmordmotiv in der russischen Prosa des 20. Jahrhunderts. Frankfurt/M.: Peter Lang, 1996. 227 pp. $44.95 (paper).

Alexander Graf. Das Selbstmordmotiv in der russischen Prosa des 20. Jahrhunderts. Frankfurt/M.:... not s u g g e s t a similar connection in t h e choice of the name Marianna in "Veshnie vody." While noting onomastic etymology for the clustering of protagonists into groups, particu- larly in Turgenev's midd!e period, one wonders if a similar clustering, but b a s e d simply on a s s o n a n c e , might not also be found (and explain, for example, the high incidence of n a m e s beginning with "L" in D r e r i a n s k o e gnez � o). After ail, Turgenev not infrequently u s e s the sound of "outrageous" n a m e s for comic effect, a device inherited, a s Dolny notes repeatedly, from Gogol' and the Natural School, but one which he nonetheless made very much his own (one can think of many examples, such a s Fomushka and Fimushka in Nov). This is certainly a remarkable study for the comprehensiveness of its data, that will un- doubtedly serve a s a usefui source for scholars. It d o e s show that Turgenev's u s e of per- sonal n http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Canadian-American Slavic Studies Brill

Alexander Graf. Das Selbstmordmotiv in der russischen Prosa des 20. Jahrhunderts. Frankfurt/M.: Peter Lang, 1996. 227 pp. $44.95 (paper).

Canadian-American Slavic Studies , Volume 32 (4): 2 – Jan 1, 1998

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not s u g g e s t a similar connection in t h e choice of the name Marianna in "Veshnie vody." While noting onomastic etymology for the clustering of protagonists into groups, particu- larly in Turgenev's midd!e period, one wonders if a similar clustering, but b a s e d simply on a s s o n a n c e , might not also be found (and explain, for example, the high incidence of n a m e s beginning with "L" in D r e r i a n s k o e gnez � o). After ail, Turgenev not infrequently u s e s the sound of "outrageous" n a m e s for comic effect, a device inherited, a s Dolny notes repeatedly, from Gogol' and the Natural School, but one which he nonetheless made very much his own (one can think of many examples, such a s Fomushka and Fimushka in Nov). This is certainly a remarkable study for the comprehensiveness of its data, that will un- doubtedly serve a s a usefui source for scholars. It d o e s show that Turgenev's u s e of per- sonal n

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