FOOD SHORT STORIES SUGGESTIONS (1 more)

[Michael A. Denner]

A couple more suggestions apropos of food:
1) Read back-to-back the food scenes from _Anna Karenina_: first Stiva and
Levin's Franco-European and inauthentic meal in the restaurant, and then the
"real" "authentic" "Russian" meal Levin (or Agafya Mikhalovna) serves his
hunting buddies. There's a wonderful sort of dialect between the two.
2) You really must add the descriptions of the canteen and general food
culture in Solzhenitsyn's _Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch_ -- esp. the
first description, about halfway through the novel, of the lineup, melee,
etc. It always makes a profound impression on me, no matter how many times
I've read it. Students respond well to it, too.
3) Someone else mentioned Francois Mitterand's last meal: You can listen to
an absolutely riveting account of it online from "This American Life" (as
strange as that might be):
http://207.70.82.73/pages/descriptions/98/116.html. My wife often uses it in
her French culture classes - students love it.

Any chance you can send me the syllabus when you're done?

mad

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Dr. Michael A. Denner
Russian Studies Program
Stetson University
Campus Box 8361
DeLand, FL 32724
386.822.7381 (department)
386.822.7265 (direct line)
386.822.7380 (fax)
http://www.stetson.edu/~mdenner
http://russianpoetry.net

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