Conference: The Pain of Words: Narratives of Suffering in Slavic Cultures (May 9-11, 2008, Princeton)

[Yevgeniy.A.Slivkin-1 at OU.EDU]

What a discovery!!! I have never known that Avvakum, Custine, Chadaev,Lermontov, and Grossman
were masochists. I will reread all these authors now with new eyes! 



Yevgeny Slivkin, Ph.D.
Department of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics
University of Oklahoma
Kaufman Hall # 225A
Office Phone: (405)325-5079
Norman, OK 73069

----- Original Message -----
From: Daniel Rancour-Laferriere <darancourlaferriere at COMCAST.NET>
Date: Wednesday, October 31, 2007 2:09 pm
Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Conference: The Pain of Words: Narratives of Suffering in Slavic Cultures (May 9-11, 2008, Princeton)
To: SEELANGS at BAMA.UA.EDU


> 30 October 07
>  
>  Dear Alex,
>  Not to worry.  There is no need to open Pandora's Box here, on the
>  list.  It's the conference organizers who are trying to keep that box
>  closed as a topic of  their conference at Princeton.  Stay cool.
>  Glasnost' is out.  Putin is in.  If they are lucky, Avvakum, Custine,
>  Chaadaev, Lermontov, Grossman, etc. etc. will be contained, the box will
>  stay closed.
>  
>  Cheers to the list,
>  
>  Daniel Rancour-Laferriere
>  
>  
>  Alex Spektor wrote:
>  
>  >oh no!  not another pandora's box.  maybe we should quickly return 
> to kurva,
>  >shliuha and svat'ia baba babariha while there's still time.  
> Although I doubt
>  >there is...
>  >
>  
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