Science to please, or Repetilov’s games (from comments to «Woe from wit» by A.S. Griboedov)

Kunarev Andrey A.

PhD Candidate of Philology, Associate Professor

Department of a technique of teaching of Russian Language and the Literature of Russian

Philological faculty

Moscow State Regional University

E-mail: angy7@yandex.ru

This article is an attempt to trace the literary and historical origins of some of the characteristic details of Repetilov, in particular, guidelines on the old card game «Reversi».

Keywords: Reversi, Ovid, Griboedov’s Moscow, the Table of Ranks, the motive, the detail.

References

1. Griboedov A.S. Sochinenija. — M.; L.: Goslitizdat, 1959.

2. Publij Ovidij Nazon. Sobranie sochinenij. Tom 1 /Per. i komment. M.L. Gasparova. — SPb.: Biograficheskij institut «Studia Biografika», 1994.