“There’s no Such Thing!”: A Chapter from an Early Version of K. Paustovsky’s Story The Book of Wanderings. (On Low Heat)
The article introduces the chapter from an early version of K.G. Paustovsky’s novel The Book of Wanderings. (On Low Heat), “There’s no Such Thing,” into scientific circulation. The text is published according to the only type- written source, which is kept in the writer’s fund in RGALI (F. 2119). Th...
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| Language: | English |
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Russian Academy of Sciences. A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature
2025-06-01
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| Series: | Литературный факт |
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| Online Access: | https://litfact.ru/images/2025-36/1_Korzhova.pdf |
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| Summary: | The article introduces the chapter from an early version of K.G. Paustovsky’s novel The Book of Wanderings. (On Low Heat), “There’s no Such Thing,” into scientific circulation. The text is published according to the only type- written source, which is kept in the writer’s fund in RGALI (F. 2119). There is also a manuscript of the chapter, given under a different name — “Northern Rendezvous.” The chapter is plot-related to another one included in the main text, “Seeing off the Training Ship.” It is dedicated to the new love of the story’s character, which overtakes him in Petrograd. The title of the chapter emphasizes the suddenness and exclusivity of the feeling. The introductory article discusses a broader issue — the disclosure of the love theme in the sixth part of Paustovsky’s autobiographical cycle. The research reveals that in addition to the new plot, which was excluded at an early stage of the work, fragments related to the character’s past hobbies were preserved until the time of preparation for publication in Novy Mir. The exclusion of these episodes is the will of K.G. Paustovsky. The article and the comments address the issue of the prototypes of the heroines in the cycle, suggest the collective nature of the image of the heroine that appears in the published chapter, and emphasize the literary genesis of this image. |
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| ISSN: | 2541-8297 2542-2421 |