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MARIA BANERJEE The N a r r a t o r a n d His Masks in Viacheslav Ivanov's Tale o f Tsarevich Svetomir Two hours before dying, on a July afternoon in Rome in 1949, Viache- slav Ivanov t u r n e d towards his friend Olga Deschartes: "Save my Svetomir. . . . Finish the t a l e . . . " a n d , as she protested: "That I cannot do, I do not know h o w . . . ," he added in a characteristically sybilline vein the promise: "Finish writing it. You know everything. I shall help."1 Five chapters o f what was to become a nine part narrative were already completed by Ivanov's own hand. Deschartes, who as the spiritual companion and confidante o f Ivanov's exile years, had wittnessed the text's mysterious genesis, accepted the poet's command as a sacred trust. Intellectually, she was intimately famil- iar with his conception o f the tale, but her personal modesty and admira- tion for Ivanov's literary mastery made her painfully aware o f the difficulty o f the task. It would take her more than fifteen years to add
Canadian-American Slavic Studies – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 1978
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