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Tamara (Lermontov's The Demon)
Tamara
also: Тамара
The solitary Georgian princess of Mikhail Lermontov's narrative poem The Demon, who is watched and finally claimed by a fallen angel; Liza cites her as the type of the lonely reader who begins to see the devil where he is not.
Reading notes
- A Case from Practice §76 Lermontov's Tamara
Tamara is the solitary Georgian princess of Mikhail Lermontov's narrative poem The Demon (1839), watched and ultimately claimed by a fallen angel; Liza reaches for her as the example of a lonely person who begins to see the devil where he is not -- without knowing that Korolyov spent the previous night doing exactly that.