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Renan, Lassalle, and Shchedrin (censorship bogeymen)

Renan / Lassalle / Shchedrin

also: Ренан, Лассаль, Щедрин

Ernest Renan (freethinking French critic of religion), Ferdinand Lassalle (German socialist), and Saltykov-Shchedrin (Russian satirist) are named together in "The Stepmother" as writers whose ideas the paranoid stepmother-censor fears might be smuggled in under an innocent pronoun.

Reading notes

Poems and Dubia (school-age and disputed juvenilia) §786 Renan, or Lassalle, or the "Moskovsky Telegraf," or Shchedrin
The censor-stepmother fears the pronoun "he" might secretly refer to freethinking or radical figures: Ernest Renan (skeptical French Biblical critic), Ferdinand Lassalle (German socialist), the newspaper Moskovsky Telegraf, or satirist Saltykov-Shchedrin -- a checklist of things period censorship actually worried about.

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