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Edited by author 11-15-2005 11:23 AM
Does freedom lack a moral centre?

Russian writers and champions of writers are suggesting that Perestroika killed the novel.

In the opinion of writers and critics, there are non-artistic reasons for the popularity of fiction in the Soviet period and its waning influence now. In the absence of modern institutions of civil society, literature served as a substitute for basic freedoms such as the freedom of the press, freedom of religion and trial by jury. Through their novels, writers passed moral judgments and positioned themselves as the “shepherds of the nation,” serving as journalists, judges and priests. But this state of affairs came to an abrupt end in the early 1990s.

And now they'd like some government money because it's so humiliating for the writer to be so badly paid. Yes, it's a daily humiliation. Listen, my Russian friends, rethink this. It isn't really humiliating, it's an honour; to be broke and undervalued means you are actually about to inherit the earth. Really.

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Solzhenitsyn papers burned

Alexander Solzhenitsyn's old dacha cottage went up in flames Wednesday night destroying much of his archived papers. I still haven't made it through the first part of The Gulag Archipelago, but I think that's because I've grown allergic to the mildewy smell of basement seeped into my books... So much for all those EL Doctorow paperbacks I'd be planning on.


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Russia's pulp fiction crisis

Like the oil crisis, but for quality literature.


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Edited by author 07-18-2005 10:43 AM
Chicklitski

Casual, Oksana Robski's runaway hit about decadent Russian nouveau-riches has everything - contract killing, entrepreneurialism and fashionista poodles.

Quick. We need an English translator here; foreign deal! Publicity! Publicity! Hurry, people!

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Wanna bet he loses?

Dostoevsky the Relatively Younger is insulted his great-grandpappy headshot is being used, somewhat ironically, I would guess, on gambling tickets, and he's suing. £4,000? That'll learn 'em.



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Genius - and terrible poet

Solzhenitsyn's juvenilia. (From Moby)



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Solzhenitsyn

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn is one of the great souls of the age. He is also among its most maligned and misunderstood figures. It is hard to think of another prominent writer whose thought and character have been subjected to as many willful distortions and vilifications over the past thirty years.

(From ALDaily)



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