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Küchelbecker’s Lyceum-era Dictionary. A reading list of a young intellectual in the 1810s
https://doi.org/10.31425/0042-8795-2020-2-231-277
Abstract
The article discusses W. Küchelbecker’s Dictionary [Slovar] that he compiled during his studies at the Tsarskoe Selo Lyceum as a kind of reading diary from 1815 to 1817. Dictionary gives an insight into formative influences on the future writer as well as his close friends from among fellow students – most notably Pushkin, who is known to have read the manuscript. It contains extracts from books of fiction as well as philosophical and historical works and periodicals read by Küchelbecker at the time. Among others, Dictionary mentions Pseudo-Longinus, J.-J. Rousseau, F. de Weiss, F. Schiller, L. Sterne, etc., listing the extracts in alphabetical order. Most translations from German, French, and English are penned by Küchelbecker himself. A fi st such experiment in the systematic analysis of this relic of the 1810s intellectual culture, the article reconstructs the reading list of Küchelbecker and his fellow students at the Lyceum. Approximately one sixth of Dictionary, covering the entries from A to G, is published in the appendix to the article, supplied with notes on the sources and their brief description.
About the Author
E. V. Abdullaev
Tashkent Orthodox Theological Seminary
Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan
Evgeny V. Abdullaev – Candidate of Philology
91 Avlieot St., Tashkent, 100015
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Abdullaev E.V. Küchelbecker’s Lyceum-era Dictionary. A reading list of a young intellectual in the 1810s. Voprosy literatury. 2020;(2):231-277. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.31425/0042-8795-2020-2-231-277
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