Taboo Pushkin: Topics, Texts, Interpretations

Taboo Push­kin Pu b­l i­c a­t i o n s o f t h e Wi s­c on ­s in Cen ­t er fo r Pus h ­k i n S t u d i­ e s Se­r ies Ed­i ­t ors David M. ­Bethea Al­ex­an­der Dol­i­nin Taboo Push­kin Top­ics, Texts, Inter­pre­ta­tions Ed­ited by Alyssa Di­nega Gil­les­pie Th e U n i ­v e r ­s i t y o f Wi sc ­ o n s­ i n P r e s s Pub­li­ca­tion of this book was made pos­sible ­through sup­port from the De­part­ment of ­Slavic Stud­ies and Lit­er­a­ture at the Uni­ver­sity of Wis­con­sin–Mad­i­son, and from the Nano­vic In­sti­tute for Eu­ro­pean Stud­ies and the In­sti­tute for Schol­ar­ ship in the Lib­eral Arts, Col­lege of Arts and Let­ters, at the Uni­ver­sity of Notre Dame. The Uni­ver­sity of Wis­con­sin Press 1930 Mon­roe ­Street, 3rd Floor Mad­i­son, Wis­con­sin 53711–2059 uw­press.wisc.edu 3 Hen­rietta ­Street Lon­don WC2E 8LU, En­gland eu­ros­pan­book­store.com Copy­right © 2012 The Board of Re­gents of the Uni­ver­sity of Wis­con­sin ­System All ­rights re­served. No part of this pub­li­ca­tion may be re­pro­duced, stored in a re­trieval ­system, or trans­mit­ted, in any for­mat or by any means, dig­i­tal, elec­tronic, me­chan­i­cal, photo­cop­y­ing, re­cord­ing, or oth­er­wise, or con­veyed via the Inter­net or a web­site with­out writ­ten per­mis­sion of the Uni­ver­sity of Wis­con­sin Press, ex­cept in the case of brief quo­ta­tions em­bed­ded in crit­ic­ al ar­ti­cles and re­views. ­Printed in the ­United ­States of Amer­ica Li­brary of Con­gress ­Cataloging-in-Publication Data Taboo Push­kin : top­ics, texts, inter­pre­ta­tions / ed­ited by ­Alyssa Di­nega Gil­les­pie. p.   cm.—(Pub­li­ca­tions of the Wis­con­sin Cen­ter for Push­kin Stud­ies) In­cludes bib­lio­graph­i­cal ref­er­ences and index. ISBN 978-0-299-28704-7 (pbk.: alk. paper) ISBN 978-0-299-28703-0 (e-book) 1.  Push­kin, Alek­sandr Ser­gee­vich, 1799–1837—Crit­i­cism and inter­pre­ta­tion.   2.  Push­kin, Alek­sandr Ser­gee­vich, 1799–1837— Ap­pre­ci­a­tion—Rus­sia.   3.  Push­kin, Alek­sandr Ser­gee­vich, 1799–1837.   I.  Di­nega, ­Alyssa W.   II.  Se­ries: Pub­li­ca­tions of the Wis­con­sin Cen­ter for Push­kin Stud­ies. PG3355.5.T33    2012 891.71´3—dc23 2011042002 I grate­fully ded­i­cate this book to my teach­ers, men­tors, and col­leagues far and wide, whose ex­am­ple in­spires, chal­lenges, and sus­tains me. !"#$%&' ()*+,-,&$".. /012,3,4 516+".&+,# [Push­kin schol­ars are to be ­feared.] Vlad­im ­ ir Maia­kov­sky Con­tents Fore­word: The Power of the Word and the Turn to Taboo xi C a ry l E me r s­ o n Ac­knowl­edg­ments Note on Transliteration and Translation Intro­duc­tion: Be­yond Push­kin as Dogma xvii xix 3 ­A ly s sa D i­n e g a G il ­l e s ­p ie Part 1:  Ta­boos in Con­text Push­kin the Tit­u­lar Coun­cilor 41 I ri na R e y­ f­m a n Why Push­kin Did Not Be­come a De­cem­brist 60 I go r N e m i­ r ­ ov ­s k y Light­ing the Green Lamp: Un­pub­lished and Un­known Poems 84 Joe Pesc ­ h io Push­kin and Met­ro­pol­i­tan Phi­la­ret: Re­think­ing the Prob­lem O l e g P ro s­ k u ­r in vii 112 viii Contents Part 2:  Taboo Writ­ings If Only Push­kin Had Not Writ­ten This Filth: The Shade of Bar­kov and Phil­ol­ og­i­cal ­Cover-ups 159 I go r P i l s h c ­ h i­k ov Bawdy and Soul: ­Pushkin’s Poet­ics of Ob­scen­ity 185 ­A ly s sa D i n ­ e g a G il ­l e s ­p ie Re­sex­ing Lit­er­a­ture: Tsar Ni­kita and His Forty Daugh­ters J . D o u g­l a s C l ay t­ o n and 224 Na­t a l ia Ve s s­ e­l ova The Poet­ics of Dry Trans­gres­sion in ­