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Russian Dinosaur: Die Hard in Moscow, or How Not to Get Killed By Librarians
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A blog mostly about Russian literature and translation issues, as retailed by a small stuffed dinosaur. Thursday, 26 January 2012. Die Hard in Moscow, or How Not to Get Killed By Librarians. And the infectious Russian belief that time does not actually pass while one is travelling through a tunnel, ensuring that everyone is always late. But I digress. This prologue should explain why Dmitry Glukhovsky's book Metro 2033. First published online in 2002. Glukhovsky isn't particularly good at metaphysics: pl...
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Russian Dinosaur: June 2010
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A blog mostly about Russian literature and translation issues, as retailed by a small stuffed dinosaur. Monday, 7 June 2010. Delivering Phantoms with Sigizmund Krzhizhanovskii. I'm currently working on a translation of a 1926 short story called Фантом. By the Russian author Sigizmund Krzhizhanovskii. (You can read it in Russian here. 1926) has become his most frequently anthologized short story (and deservedly - it's a classic of psychological horror), I feel that Phantom. Links to this post. I am a smal...
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Russian Dinosaur: Ghostly Paradoxes
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A blog mostly about Russian literature and translation issues, as retailed by a small stuffed dinosaur. Friday, 17 February 2012. In 2009, the ingenious and prolific U Penn-based scholar Ilya Vinitsky published Ghostly Paradoxes: Modern Spiritualism and Russian Culture in the Age of Realism. Springs to mind, or indeed of Helen Sword; besides this recent Modern Language Review article. What Terry Castle, in The Female Thermometer: Eighteenth-Century Culture and the Invention of the Uncanny. And of the Swe...
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Russian Dinosaur: Dinosaur Tracks - It's Triceratopical
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A blog mostly about Russian literature and translation issues, as retailed by a small stuffed dinosaur. Tuesday, 6 September 2011. Dinosaur Tracks - It's Triceratopical. Today's research trip to the Publichka ( the St Petersburg National Library. Came uncomfortably close to the bone. First, there was the shock of ordering a book by one of my favourite obscure Soviet authors that turned out to be about ME. Nikolai Ognev (best known for Dnevnik Kosti Riabtseva. Translated as The Diary of a Soviet Schoolboy.
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Russian Dinosaur: Hodge's The Collaborators: Collaborating Against Bulgakov
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A blog mostly about Russian literature and translation issues, as retailed by a small stuffed dinosaur. Wednesday, 7 December 2011. Hodge's The Collaborators: Collaborating Against Bulgakov. According to Robert Service's Stalin: A Biography. Not suffer lyrically enough? Die, instead, of an untreatable inherited condition that no dictator could have inflicted (unless Stalin had corrupted the family gene pool prior to 1859, the year Bulgakov's father was born)? Of his patron. and yet, illogically, this...
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Russian Dinosaur: April 2011
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A blog mostly about Russian literature and translation issues, as retailed by a small stuffed dinosaur. Wednesday, 13 April 2011. At the London Book Fair with Valerii Briusov. Briusov under the table. Picture credit: Northwestern University's Poet Page. Valerii Briusov was not at the 2011 London Book Fair. Did an impressive job of co-ordinating this year's Russian Market Focus. Since, unlike Briusov, I was at the London Book Fair, it felt appropriate to be reading his novel The Fiery Angel. I feel Bely w...
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Russian Dinosaur: Celebrating Tolstoy in Oxford
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A blog mostly about Russian literature and translation issues, as retailed by a small stuffed dinosaur. Tuesday, 23 November 2010. Celebrating Tolstoy in Oxford. This blog marks a departure from my translation theme, but also my return after a long silence caused by work obligations: my new job in Oxford is wonderful, but very demanding of my time. Half-completed translations languish in remote computer folders, waiting for the Christmas holidays to start. Tolstoy's bedroom in Astapovo. Hi Dinosaur, how ...
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Russian Dinosaur: Bulgakov's Green Lamp
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A blog mostly about Russian literature and translation issues, as retailed by a small stuffed dinosaur. Saturday, 24 September 2011. And an intriguing museum blog. I had never known before reading it that the dissident Soviet writer Viktor Nekrasov. The Lamp With the Green Shade: Mikhail Bulgakov and His Father' [. When Elena Turbina's no-good husband Talberg announces he's leaving with the Germans, Elena helps him pack his things. 'And then. and then it was horrible to be in the room, just as in...For m...
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Russian Dinosaur: Dovlatov Days
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A blog mostly about Russian literature and translation issues, as retailed by a small stuffed dinosaur. Monday, 19 September 2011. Russian writer and rasskazchik. At the Fontannyi Dom, housed in the apartment directly under Anna Akhmatova's flat-museum. However, the display is underwhelming: you stroll past giant blow-up composites of pages from Dovlatov's emigre newspaper Novyi amerikanets. As a birthday tribute, the poet pointedly downplayed the gift and then, as if accidentally, scrumpled up the cover...
