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The Narrator andHis Masks inViacheslavIvanov's Tale of Tsarevich Svetomir

The Narrator andHis Masks inViacheslavIvanov's Tale of Tsarevich Svetomir 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 http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Canadian-American Slavic Studies Brill

The Narrator andHis Masks inViacheslavIvanov's Tale of Tsarevich Svetomir

Canadian-American Slavic Studies , Volume 12 (2): 274 – Jan 1, 1978

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Brill
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© 1978 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0090-8290
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2210-2396
DOI
10.1163/221023978X00060
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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

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Published: Jan 1, 1978

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