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Links of the Week
Many of these links have been tweeted in the past, but here I can tag and categorise them for future reference. I hope you find some of them interesting too. Please feel free to discuss in comments or...
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Coetzee’s The Master of Petersburg
Such darkness in Coetzee’s The Master of Petersburg, ostensibly the tale of a haunted, fictionalised Dostoevsky returning to nineteenth century St Petersburg to mourn and collect the papers of a dead...
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Links of the Week
Many of these links have been tweeted in the past, but here I can tag and categorise them for future reference. I hope you find some of them interesting too. Please feel free to discuss in comments or...
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Better than a Dublin jarvey!
Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks to Sultan Mehmed IV of the Ottoman Empire – Ilya Repin (1880-1891) Mehmed IV, Sultan of the 1676 Ottoman Empire, demanded that the Cossacks submit to Turkish rule. The...
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So This Is How I Turned Into A Dog
This is entirely unbearable! As though bitten all over by malice. I rage not like anyone could possibly, Like a hound at the bareheaded moon – in its face then howl at everything. Nerves, it must be…....
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Reshaping People
I adore Richard Rorty’s introduction to the Everyman edition of Nabokov’s Pale Fire: But Nabokov helps us remember that we can only respect what we can notice, and that it is often very hard for us to...
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Rare Birds
Where does the Blogger’s Code (you know those self-appointed men that harangue from street corners) stand on updating old posts? I’d never thought much about it, except to correct typos, until I read...
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Portrait of Anna Akhmatova
Portrait of Anna Akhmatova (1922) – Kuzma Petrov-VodkinFiled under: 20th Century, Painting, Russian Literature Tagged: Anna Akhmatova, Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin
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Interpretative Revelation
But all at once it dawned on me that this Was the real point, the contrapuntal theme; Just this: not text; not the dream But topsy-turvical coincidence, Not flimsy nonsense, but a web of sense. Yes! It...
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Dante’s Shoe Soles
It’s difficult reading poetry in translation. I’ve read all the usual Russian poets: Akhmatova, Tsvetaeva, Pasternak, Brodsky, and the elusive Mandelstam, but I can’t imagine that much of the poetry...
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