baconmeteor ([info]baconmeteor) wrote,
@ 2006-10-24 11:23:00
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день жаворонка
From chapter 8:

Не бежать же в исполком и просить там красок на проведение "Дня жаворонка"?

As best I can tell, this refers to a traditional spring holiday for greeting the arrival of migrating birds. Does anyone have more info, or suggestions for how to convey it?

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[info]pascendi
2006-10-24 11:32 am UTC (link)
IMHO, Ostap refers to his usual way of making money from creative usage of bluff. As far as I know, there was no (official) spring holiday dedicated to жаворонок (it was rather religious holiday dated as far as pagan pre-Christian rites). It seems to me that Ostap had just invented the holiday.
So it is much like money gathering for the repair of the Abyss ("Провал" в Пятигорске)under pretext "Чтобы не очень провалился".

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[info]mithrilian
2006-10-24 11:39 am UTC (link)
This holiday was celebrated in some rural parts of Russia, I remember a detailed description given by Астафьев. But of course, it has never been official.

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[info]zhuzh
2006-10-24 11:35 am UTC (link)
No, most certainly not a traditional holiday. Ostap invented it on the spot, in the spirit of the epoch.

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[info]mama_ari
2006-10-24 11:36 am UTC (link)
имеется в виду вымышленный праздник. выстраивая новые советские ритуалы вместо традиционных дохристианских и христианских, тогда изобретали такое количество праздников, что изобретение Остапом ещё одного прошло бы нормально, исполком бы дал денег и красок

решение по переводу - использовать узнаваемость Groundhog's Day, и взять зверька, похожего на Groundhog, но отличающегося. Rabbit's Day? что-то такое, похожее но фальшивое.

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[info]alec_milkin
2006-10-24 03:43 pm UTC (link)
+1

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[info]dinozavrik
2006-10-24 11:39 am UTC (link)
Yes, you are right about holiday. But, as I can tell, in this case holiday name is not as important as you think it is :) You know, there was a lot of, hm, similar holidays in that country. In next week, there may be a day of medicine worker, after that - a day of mineworker and so on. (Those are for example. I do not remember them all, actually. And I doubt anyone can :)). So, this "spring holiday" is treated like "some holiday, for which some paint may be acquired", it is just an improvisation made by Ostap.

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[info]baconmeteor
2006-10-24 11:46 am UTC (link)
considering 'Spring Lark's Day' for this.

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[info]edricson
2006-10-24 11:55 am UTC (link)
Spring Lark Day, in parallel with Groundhog Day, would better capture the formulaicness, IMO

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[info]baconmeteor
2006-10-24 01:17 pm UTC (link)
I think you're right.

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[info]dil
2006-10-24 01:11 pm UTC (link)
There's no such holiday. Just invented by Ostap on the fly as a good reason for obtaining the stuff from the executive commitee.

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