FOOD SHORT STORIES SUGGESTIONS (1 more)

[Mark Yoffe]

And one more: Vladimir Sorokin's Norma

"Michael A. Denner" wrote:

> 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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