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What Pisemskii writes about
After reading 1 1/2 long novels by Pisemskii, it seems like there’s a lot of: Women named Kleopatra. Kleopatra Petrovna in Troubled Seas (Взбаламученное море, 1863), an old woman who may have sl… more →
XIX век
Film Review: In the Fog
wrote 1 day ago: Rating: 4.5 out of 5 Sergei Loznitsa’s My Joy, a fable about post-communist Russia and the pli … more →
New poetry translations: Batiushkov, Baratynskii, Lermontov
wrote 3 days ago: Interlitq (or The International Literary Quarterly) has published some nineteenth-century Russian po … more →
"There Once Lived a Girl Who Seduced Her Sister's Husband, and He Hanged Himself: Love Stories" by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya
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wrote 4 days ago: I’m in a particularly grumpy/bitter mood tonight, so this is a perfect time to review this boo … more →
Gogol's "Dead Souls": a comic inferno
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wrote 5 days ago: A preamble I had first read Dead Souls when, as a teenager, I developed a mania for 19th century Rus … more →
'Tis Time, My Friend, 'Tis Time
wrote 1 week ago: ‘Tis time, my friend, ‘tis time! For rest the heart is aching- The first line of my favorite Pushkin … more →
Magic Tales and more from Robert Chandler
wrote 1 week ago: In ‘A Little Fairytale’, a wonderfully clever and touching story, the figure of Baba Yaga becomes a … more →
Literary roundup: Russian literature in prisons, on spies and some Czech honey
wrote 1 week ago: The Washington Post has an amazing article about teaching Russian literature in prisons in Virginia. … more →
Soviet Dissent - 3
wrote 1 week ago: In her discussion of the Soviet dissident movement Alexeyeva places an initial emphasis on two centr … more →
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Little Vanya
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wrote 1 week ago: “Cauis [Caesar] is a man, men are mortal, therefore Caius is mortal,” had always seemed to him corre … more →
Dostoevsky: A cloud-capped summit in a land of mountains
wrote 1 week ago: People often ask you who’s your favourite writer? what’s your favourite book? For people … more →
Learn Russian Online Right Now and for FREE
wrote 1 week ago: Learn Russian for free online. A Spoonful of Russian iTunes Feed Web Site Recommended by our readers … more →
Systems Everywhere
wrote 1 week ago: On the Dissimilarity of the Similar (excerpt) – Viktor Shklovsky … more →
Is “the dust of chancery forms” what makes 1830s Russian seem hard?
wrote 2 weeks ago: One of the writers everyone read at the time but no one reads anymore is Osip Senkovskii, who isn … more →
Where's the Russian Lit?
wrote 2 weeks ago: I take this quote from the first page of A History of Russian Literature: From Its Beginnings to 190 … more →
Year of a Hundred books – #39 The Courilof Affair
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wrote 2 weeks ago: The Courilof Affair, by Irene Némirovsky 3/5 I went through a phase during the my late teens, when I … more →
I am an average talented no one
wrote 2 weeks ago: -I am an average talented no one with a slight admiration of alcohol (occasionally) who loves classi … more →
wrote 2 weeks ago: ” He had two lives: one, open, seen and known by all who cared to know, full of relative truth … more →
Le maschere del Cremlino, e un rap americano.
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wrote 2 weeks ago: Perche’ aveva finanziato l’opposizione russa tramite Skolkovo. Perche’ si era messo contro il sempre … more →
