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I’ve been re-reading Russian lit and have been stunned by one universal theme
I didn’t say to myself one day, “I’m going to read my collection of Russian lit.” There was no such plan. Simply, I decided it was time to re-read Anna Karenina. I was uneasy about doing it, uneasy about the … Continue reading
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Tagged Anna Karenina, Bolshevism, Chechov, emphysema, Eugene Onegin, Henri Troyat, Jane Eyre, Lenin, Pushkin, Russian literature, Stalin, Tolstoy, Trotsky, Vladimir Nabokov, War and Peace, Wuthering Heights
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Want to write a memoir? Don’t read this quote
I have loved Russian literature for most of my life. Pushkin, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Sergei Dovlatov. (Gogol scares me, as do Poe and Hoffmann. Reading any of the three of them is like being pulled into the imagination of a schizophrenic.) … Continue reading
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Tagged Anna Karenina, Edgar Allen Poe, Ellen Kaye, ETA Hoffmann, First Love, Ivan Turgenev, Leo Tolstoy, Nikolai Gogol, Nikolai Tolstoy, Sergei Dovlatov, The Diary of A Superfluous Man
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