bright sunny days in Russian literature

[Alina Israeli]

The word солнце or its variations appear 32 times in "Voskresen'e" and  
49 in "Anna Karenina". It's true that "Anna Karenina" is a lot more  
cheerful than "Ressurection", 50% more cheerful.


Dec 10, 2010, в 3:12 PM, anne marie devlin написал(а):

> Did Crime and Punishment not take place on a bright sunny day?
>
>>>
>>> That's because of the Russian weather :) Does anyone want to count
>>> the bright sunny days in Russian novels?
>>>
>>> Slava
>>>
>>>

Alina Israeli
Associate Professor of Russian
LFS, American University
4400 Massachusetts Ave.
Washington DC 20016
(202) 885-2387 	fax (202) 885-1076
aisrael at american.edu





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