Perhaps it's coming out in the US on a delayed schedule. Also, could you point out to the author of the review an error?
He wrote:
Spufford inflects his historical research via these sorts of Russian "skaza," and above all, typical skaza "dreams of abundance," stories where everyone was going to climb the cabbage stalk, scramble through the hole in the sky and arrive in the land where millstones turned all by themselves.
The word is skazka, not skaza.
He wrote:
Spufford inflects his historical research via these sorts of Russian "skaza," and above all, typical skaza "dreams of abundance," stories where everyone was going to climb the cabbage stalk, scramble through the hole in the sky and arrive in the land where millstones turned all by themselves.
The word is skazka, not skaza.
Next time I see him on Twitter, I'll pass that along. Or to his editor, who's also on my Twitter list.
Illusions fall like the husk of a fruit, one after another, and the fruit is experience. - Narrator, Sylvie
Je suis méchant.
Je suis méchant.
Red Plenty by Francis Spufford.
- 07/09/2010 09:15:16 PM
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I find it kind of amusing...
- 08/09/2010 01:39:56 PM
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The probability approaches 1 that we agree on non-economic topics and disagree on economic topics.
- 08/09/2010 02:14:32 PM
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Actually, I don't think we're that far apart on economics.
- 08/09/2010 02:33:00 PM
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Yet we always find the points of contention, rather than the convergences.
- 08/09/2010 03:31:51 PM
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True. Maybe we need to post some article/review on free trade, or so. 
- 08/09/2010 03:59:28 PM
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- 08/09/2010 03:59:28 PM
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You should write them.
- 08/09/2010 10:28:03 PM
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I would expect you to understand it without any serious problems.
- 08/09/2010 10:36:38 PM
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It's a book I plan on getting in the near future
- 09/09/2010 02:31:03 AM
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I could only order it from Amazon in the UK for some reason
- 09/09/2010 05:18:28 AM
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Sure
- 09/09/2010 05:43:03 AM
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