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Dear Readers, I thought I'd become the new moderator for this club if no one objected as there didn't seem to be one in place prior. Please let me know if this is a bad idea or if you would prefer someone else endure the responsibility...
Secondly, someone had the idea of having the group read a novel together. Is anyone interested? I might suggest
The Master and Margarita, but if everyone has already read it than perhaps something else lesser known...
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I'd love to see more activity in this club so moderate away!
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Just joined (and glad I did!) - take it away, Narrator!
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Tom
(last edited 08/04/2008 04:47PM)
08/04/2008 04:24PM
I welcome a moderate moderator!
I'd love to reread M&M with the group, but personally I just won't have time once I get back to teaching in a few weeks. (I'm already in two other face-to-face book clubs.)
Maybe start off with some short stories? Anybody up for some Nikolai Leskov? I've been wanting to read "Lady Macbeth of the Mtensk District," which is about 50 pgs.
Or one of Chekhov's long stories / short novels? Maybe "The Duel" or "My Life"? I'm just brainstorming here ...
Dostoevsky's "The Gambler"?
Tolstoy's "Hadji Murat"?
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I'd be up for reading something lesser known. I just did a 20-page research paper on M&M, so I for one would probably prefer to read something else...
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(last edited 08/05/2008 10:44AM)
08/05/2008 10:43AM
I just read the new Pevear and Volokhonsky translations of The Gambler and The Double - both great reads. I'd be happy to discuss those.
What about Tatianna Tolstaya? That collection, On the Golden Porch has some great stories, I'd love to hear other people's opinions on them.
Lady Macbeth of Mtensk District is a great opera by Shostakovich - I've never read the original story - I'd enjoy that. Any of the others mentioned are also fine with me.
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Might I suggest another Bulgakov book, The Heart of a Dog? It is rather short so time shouldn't be a problem.
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Tolstaya and Bulgakov are both good suggestions; I'd be happy with either. I've had Heart of a Dog on my shelf, unread, for a while. Tolstaya is a contemporary writer, is she not? That might be an interesting added factor in selection -- dead or alive writers, if you'll excuse the crudeness.
Perhaps our newly crowned moderator, Narrator, would like to compile a list of suggestions and put them to a vote? Just a suggestion.
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I also have Heart of a Dog on my shelf but haven't read it yet. I am open to anything, though. I haven't read any contemporary Russian writers.
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I'm with Phillip: Tatyana Tolstaya is fantastic. She has all of the silliness and surreal qualities we love to see in the older Russian novels. I'm totally won over with The Slynx.
To answer the moderator's point -- in message 8 -- perhaps we don't credit the contemporary artists because they weren't silenced under a Stalinist regime! Really, I feel a debt to these guys who wrote such wonderful things in such a cruel time.
And don't forget to take a moment to read some Kharms and any thing else of the Oberiu slant. I know lot of you probably like the thick Russian tome, but there is a good precedent for the very short as well.
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(last edited 08/06/2008 11:14PM)
08/06/2008 11:13PM
I'm really fine either way - I read Heart of a Dog once, several years ago, and am ready to re-visit it. And Tolstaya (thanks for mentioning the Slynxx, seisyll!) is such a wonderfully giddy writer. I prefer the stories in On The Golden Porch to Sleepwalker in a Fog - but only because the latter is a bit like walking in fog...the stories are a bit opaque, but on second thought, they might improve with a second reading...in short, I'm game - let's get on the road.
And yes, to answer your question, Tom - Tolstaya is a contemporary writer. She was living in America and teaching some where on the upper east coast until a few years ago (possibly even last year) when she returned to Russia.
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For the sake of cohesive communication, let's consolidate this discussion under the thread started by Anna, "Let's Start Monthly Reading ... "
I've posted an emerging nominating list there. Please go there to make your nomination for group reading.
Your Most Temporary Stand-in Moderator,
tom
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