STALINKA

[Russell Valentino]

My first thought was of Don DeLillo's novel White Noise, which won the National 
Book Award in 1985. The narrator, Jack Gladney, teaches at College-on-the-Hill, 
where he invented the concept of Hitler Studies in '68 and is now the chairman 
of a whole department devoted to the subject. It's a dark satire, of course. 
The answer to Slavic's woes?

RV

Quoting Galina Rylkova <grylkova at UFL.EDU>:

> Unlike Nabokov, I wouldn't assume to "read the team's mind correctly,"  
> but my first association was not with the cult of Stalin but with one  
> of the biggest repositories of books in Russia, usually referred to as  
> "Leninka."
> Sincerely,
> Galina Rylkova
> On Sep 25, 2005, at 12:35 AM, Edward M Dumanis wrote:
> 
> > I would friendly suggest to the announcing team of the University of
> > Pittsburgh try to refrain from the terms that they chose both for the  
> > name
> > and the description of the archive. Something less affectionate than
> > "uncle Joe" style  would be more appropriate. Somebody might try to use
> > "Hitleriana" and "Hitlerka" for a Russian collection of Hitler-related
> > papers but it would look like a collection for Neo-Nazis. Just replace
> > Hitler for Stalin to see if any of your proposals would sound right.  
> > For
> > example, Staliniada cf. Hitleriada, and so on.
> >
> > Sincerely,
> >
> > Edward Dumanis <dumanis at buffalo.edu>

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