Comments on: Dickens’s Inner Demon http://horse-you-rode-in-on.com/2012/01/16/dickens%e2%80%99s-inner-demon/ Random rants and curious explanation. Sat, 19 May 2012 15:08:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: Al http://horse-you-rode-in-on.com/2012/01/16/dickens%e2%80%99s-inner-demon/comment-page-1/#comment-4800 Al Wed, 18 Jan 2012 21:47:23 +0000 http://horse-you-rode-in-on.com/?p=1847#comment-4800 Quite so. The meeting with Dickens must have been brief after all the time consumed by introducing Dostoevsky -- Feyodor or Feodor Mikhailovich (there's your patronymic) Dostoevsky or Dostoiewsky or Dostoisfsky, son of Michail Andreevich and Maria Fedorovna, etc. etc. And, as you suggest, he traveled in company with his entire village -- which today would be quite expensive but back then the diminutives could travel free. Quite so. The meeting with Dickens must have been brief after all the time consumed by introducing Dostoevsky — Feyodor or Feodor Mikhailovich (there’s your patronymic) Dostoevsky or Dostoiewsky or Dostoisfsky, son of Michail Andreevich and Maria Fedorovna, etc. etc. And, as you suggest, he traveled in company with his entire village — which today would be quite expensive but back then the diminutives could travel free.

]]> By: Steve Alber http://horse-you-rode-in-on.com/2012/01/16/dickens%e2%80%99s-inner-demon/comment-page-1/#comment-4798 Steve Alber Tue, 17 Jan 2012 19:58:34 +0000 http://horse-you-rode-in-on.com/?p=1847#comment-4798 Dostoesvsky was merely confused because Dickens only had two names: Charles and Dickens; whereas Doetoesvsky probably had several dozen, what with patronymics and all, and probably ascribed a persona to each one, And then, of course, there were all the diminutives of all the patronymics, which left each Russian sharing his personal space with an entire village-ful of people whose names he couldn't keep straight. No wonder he was puzzled. Dostoesvsky was merely confused because Dickens only had two names: Charles and Dickens; whereas Doetoesvsky probably had several dozen, what with patronymics and all, and probably ascribed a persona to each one, And then, of course, there were all the diminutives of all the patronymics, which left each Russian sharing his personal space with an entire village-ful of people whose names he couldn’t keep straight.

No wonder he was puzzled.

]]> By: Al http://horse-you-rode-in-on.com/2012/01/16/dickens%e2%80%99s-inner-demon/comment-page-1/#comment-4793 Al Mon, 16 Jan 2012 20:15:09 +0000 http://horse-you-rode-in-on.com/?p=1847#comment-4793 We’ve heard this story before (and hope we’re not repeating it here, but after 500 posts, who knows?). This week we’re indebted to Verlyn Klinkenborg for bringing it up again in an excellent Sunday Observer column on Dickens in the Sunday Times. We’ve heard this story before (and hope we’re not repeating it here, but after 500 posts, who knows?). This week we’re indebted to Verlyn Klinkenborg for bringing it up again in an excellent Sunday Observer column on Dickens in the Sunday Times.

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