Question on teaching of Orwell's _1984_ in Bulgaria

[BENJAMIN RIFKIN]

Jeanette - I'm travelling now, but one of my grads at Madison is
Bulgarian. I don't have his e-mail address now, but will be back in
Madison on Monday. He was a teacher in a high school in Bulgaria for a
few years.

- Ben


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Benjamin Rifkin

Professor of Slavic Languages, UW-Madison
1432 Van Hise, 1220 Linden Dr.
Madison, WI 53706 USA
voice:  608-262-1623; fax: 608-265-2814
http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/slavic/rifkin/index.html

Director, Middlebury Russian School
Freeman International Center
Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT 07553 USA
voice: 802-443-5533; fax: 802-443-5394
http://www.middlebury.edu/~ls/russian/


----- Original Message -----
From: Jeanette Owen <jowen at BRYNMAWR.EDU>
Date: Friday, September 27, 2002 1:23 pm
Subject: [SEELANGS] Question on teaching of Orwell's _1984_ in Bulgaria

> A student of mine writing a senior thesis on receptions of George
> Orwell's_Nineteen Eighty-Four_ was told that the novel was taught
> in schools in
> Bulgaria as a morality story about the evils of unrestrained
> capitalism.If anyone can confirm this and provide a general time
> frame for when the
> novel had been introduced into the curriculum, I would be grateful
> if you
> would contact me off-list.
> Thank you,
> Jeanette
>
> Jeanette Owen
>
> Russian Department
> Bryn Mawr College
> 101 N. Merion Avenue
> Bryn Mawr, PA 19010
> (610) 526-5190
>
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