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According to a footnote in my (Dutch) copy... Legolas Send a noteboard - 18/10/2010 10:55:22 PM
On a side note. I wanted to ask you: what is the tree they are talking about when in the English it is translated as "ash"? They say, in chapter 25, that

``ash'' is very well named, no other tree is so light and glimmers in the air so ``ashenly'' as it does.


it's a word play on the fact that the Russian words for "ash" and "clear" or "gleaming" or some such are very similar.
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I had pretty much the same reaction as you. Rebekah - 22/10/2010 07:05:37 PM 649 Views
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Well, that makes sense Tom - 17/10/2010 05:12:09 PM 552 Views
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According to a footnote in my (Dutch) copy... Legolas - 18/10/2010 10:55:22 PM 578 Views
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Oh...Rebekah, I was going to mention that I saw your post only much later because I was very drunk. Tom - 17/10/2010 05:13:41 PM 578 Views
Heh, no worries. Rebekah - 18/10/2010 11:07:00 AM 509 Views
Good book. nossy - 17/10/2010 06:37:16 PM 592 Views
Agreed. Camilla - 18/10/2010 11:55:11 AM 664 Views
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I think you might be overanalyzing the birch tree statement. Tom - 18/10/2010 11:45:12 PM 541 Views
I disagree nossy - 19/10/2010 05:27:07 AM 576 Views
I loved it. Great book. Legolas - 18/10/2010 10:49:27 PM 530 Views
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I think it's very relevant. It's also unusually un-Russian. Tom - 18/10/2010 11:54:03 PM 503 Views
Yeah... the Russian nobility at the time seems to have been kind of un-Russian, really. Legolas - 20/10/2010 04:03:34 PM 557 Views
It felt very Russian to me as well Camilla - 20/10/2010 04:12:50 PM 518 Views
There was little of the usual ... histrionics that happen in Russian novels. Rebekah - 22/10/2010 07:02:12 PM 565 Views
Most of the histrionics are Dostoevsky manifestations. Tom - 22/10/2010 10:52:52 PM 608 Views
I really wish I'd bought a properly annotated version. Rebekah - 22/10/2010 07:07:16 PM 583 Views
The answer to that is to just read a great book on Nineteenth Century Russian history. Tom - 22/10/2010 10:55:06 PM 582 Views
Can you recommend one? Rebekah - 22/10/2010 10:55:56 PM 863 Views
"One" is where it starts to get harder. Tom - 23/10/2010 01:45:03 AM 597 Views
Not just Russian, though, there's a lot of mentions of other European history. Legolas - 22/10/2010 11:19:28 PM 527 Views
Nikolai and Pavel - I love them. Rebekah - 22/10/2010 07:14:11 PM 665 Views
Perhaps it's Pavel's "The Chap"-ish nature that makes the novel seem less Russian to me. Tom - 22/10/2010 10:53:56 PM 653 Views
Ah, that's a good point. Rebekah - 22/10/2010 10:54:56 PM 524 Views
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