Ковач об аллюзиях в "Амбере"
Подозреваю, что тут наверняка уже когда-то была ссылка на эту статью, но, кажется, в последние годы в этом сообществе не так уж часто спамят ссылками :)
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- Все, Флора. Начиная с того, каким образом ты оказалась пастушкой в этой Тени, Земле. Все, что относится к делу. Что было оговорено, что подразумевалось. Все, без утайки.
Она вздохнула.
- С чего же начать... да... Дело было в Париже на празднике у некоего мсье Фуко, года за три до начала якобинского террора...
("Знак Единорога")
Monsieur Foucault was a real person but it was quite a challenge to identify him; it didn’t help that his name is misspelled “Focault” in most editions. That Zelazny knew his name and deeds means that he must have read detailed histories of the French Revolution, and I needed to do the same to understand this allusion. Louis de Foucault, also spelled Foucauld in some texts, was a French noble (1755-1805), Marquis of Lardimalie, and member of the French National Assembly between 1789 and 1791. He was a right-wing monarchist who fought during the Revolution against the abolition of the nobility. He publicly declared that nobility was “an indestructible, imprescriptible, and inalienable property” and sided with colleagues who considered nobility to be an irrevocable gift from God (Blaufarb 64). He was arrested on August 28, 1790, after he and accomplices posed as national guardsmen, rescued a key political prisoner from a dungeon, and sheltered him in his home. Curiously, no proceedings were ever initiated against him, likely because he still had friends in positions of power (Shapiro 211-12, 278). This lenient treatment sparked public protest but he never lost his head on the guillotine. Instead, he died years later when he mocked warnings from the stonemasons renovating his castle, and the unsafe edifice collapsed upon him.
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https://www.nyrsf.com/2012/07/suspended-in-literature-patterns-and-allusions-in-the-chronicles-of-amber-by-christopher-s-kovacs-1.html
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- Все, Флора. Начиная с того, каким образом ты оказалась пастушкой в этой Тени, Земле. Все, что относится к делу. Что было оговорено, что подразумевалось. Все, без утайки.
Она вздохнула.
- С чего же начать... да... Дело было в Париже на празднике у некоего мсье Фуко, года за три до начала якобинского террора...
("Знак Единорога")
Monsieur Foucault was a real person but it was quite a challenge to identify him; it didn’t help that his name is misspelled “Focault” in most editions. That Zelazny knew his name and deeds means that he must have read detailed histories of the French Revolution, and I needed to do the same to understand this allusion. Louis de Foucault, also spelled Foucauld in some texts, was a French noble (1755-1805), Marquis of Lardimalie, and member of the French National Assembly between 1789 and 1791. He was a right-wing monarchist who fought during the Revolution against the abolition of the nobility. He publicly declared that nobility was “an indestructible, imprescriptible, and inalienable property” and sided with colleagues who considered nobility to be an irrevocable gift from God (Blaufarb 64). He was arrested on August 28, 1790, after he and accomplices posed as national guardsmen, rescued a key political prisoner from a dungeon, and sheltered him in his home. Curiously, no proceedings were ever initiated against him, likely because he still had friends in positions of power (Shapiro 211-12, 278). This lenient treatment sparked public protest but he never lost his head on the guillotine. Instead, he died years later when he mocked warnings from the stonemasons renovating his castle, and the unsafe edifice collapsed upon him.
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https://www.nyrsf.com/2012/07/suspended-in-literature-patterns-and-allusions-in-the-chronicles-of-amber-by-christopher-s-kovacs-1.html