Of all the Russian authors to receive the prize, Solzhenitsyn is the worst stylistically
Tom Send a noteboard - 26/09/2009 10:03:11 PM
His prose is terrible and the subject material was better handled by Varlam Shalamov. You really should make it a point of reading Pasternak. He's the only Twentieth Century author of Russian literature who reads like one of the great Nineteenth Century authors in terms of depth of meaning. Doctor Zhivago is a true classic, a beautifully written (poetic, really) novel about the failure of utopias, the eternal value of the promise of Christianity (whether or not one is actually a Christian) and the struggle between the personal and the collective.
Political correctness is the pettiest form of casuistry.
ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
So, I have a list of authors here. It's a bit like Pokémon... Gotta catch them all.
26/09/2009 08:17:06 PM
- 2219 Views
Myself, so far...
26/09/2009 08:22:52 PM
- 956 Views
Wow
26/09/2009 08:52:10 PM
- 936 Views
Oh.
26/09/2009 09:01:31 PM
- 1093 Views
Yes, even people with virtually no education have usually heard of Churchill and/or Kipling. *NM*
26/09/2009 09:37:59 PM
- 430 Views
I've read 36 of those
26/09/2009 09:04:18 PM
- 982 Views
Okay, I've read a few of these people. (EDITED to specify what works)
26/09/2009 09:36:31 PM
- 1057 Views
Gee, I wonder what the theme is...
26/09/2009 09:37:38 PM
- 1076 Views
It's not so hard to figure that out...
26/09/2009 09:44:55 PM
- 951 Views
Why is that? Because the prize is utterly meaningless?
26/09/2009 09:58:39 PM
- 1063 Views
Of course it is meaningless, all prizes are.
26/09/2009 10:08:36 PM
- 1094 Views
Oh...but those are the "Some People" that I look down my elitist nose at.
26/09/2009 10:18:01 PM
- 946 Views
Let's see.
26/09/2009 09:58:12 PM
- 1059 Views
Of all the Russian authors to receive the prize, Solzhenitsyn is the worst stylistically
26/09/2009 10:03:11 PM
- 873 Views
I've been meaning to read Pasternak for such a long time.
26/09/2009 10:06:28 PM
- 1007 Views
Don't put it on a list at amazon. Put it in the cart, then click on "purchase".
26/09/2009 10:23:33 PM
- 915 Views
I don't buy books online myself. If I did people would never know what to get me.
26/09/2009 10:26:01 PM
- 1012 Views
See, I can't remember if I read Pasternak...
26/09/2009 10:11:14 PM
- 934 Views
It's one of my favorite books of all time.
26/09/2009 10:21:37 PM
- 988 Views
There's an ITV film of the book with Keira Knightley. It looks utterly appalling. *NM*
26/09/2009 10:25:12 PM
- 434 Views
For what it's worth, the recent Russian miniseries wasn't fantastic.
27/09/2009 03:02:25 AM
- 885 Views
Only 10 of them.
26/09/2009 11:53:47 PM
- 978 Views
From my list, Hesse's Siddhartha is my foremost recommendation. *NM*
26/09/2009 11:55:03 PM
- 518 Views
Only these ones have I already read, but I'll try the challenge. Could take me a while, atm.
27/09/2009 02:48:10 AM
- 860 Views
Re: So, I have a list of authors here. It's a bit like Pokémon... Gotta catch them all.
28/09/2009 09:55:36 AM
- 1054 Views
Re: So, I have a list of authors here. It's a bit like Pokémon... Gotta catch them all.
28/09/2009 06:15:01 PM
- 881 Views
Re: So, I have a list of authors here. It's a bit like Pokémon... Gotta catch them all.
28/09/2009 06:51:05 PM
- 862 Views
Re: So, I have a list of authors here. It's a bit like Pokémon... Gotta catch them all.
29/09/2009 02:20:37 PM
- 966 Views
I worked out that the best way to make use of this thread is to remove the names I have read...
02/10/2009 08:43:57 PM
- 1122 Views