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How about touring Moscow and using these stories as a map? (I haven't been to Moscow yet.)
What is it that makes these stories so Russian? Two of them reminded me of stories I'd read in class in college: The Point of No Return and The Coat That Smelled Like Earth. (Gogol's The Overcoat?) Quintessentially Russian--whatever that means.
My favorites tended to be the ones with a woman as a main character, although only three of them are actually written by women. The book is edited by two women howeve ...more
What is it that makes these stories so Russian? Two of them reminded me of stories I'd read in class in college: The Point of No Return and The Coat That Smelled Like Earth. (Gogol's The Overcoat?) Quintessentially Russian--whatever that means.
My favorites tended to be the ones with a woman as a main character, although only three of them are actually written by women. The book is edited by two women howeve ...more
Feb 06, 2018
Janet Whalen
marked it as to-read
