SEELANGS Digest - 15 Nov 2010 (#2010-421)

[Val Vinokur]

Erofeev's Moscow Circles.

On Nov 16, 2010, at 1:00 AM, SEELANGS automatic digest system wrote:

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>  1. a funny book, anyone?
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> Date:    Mon, 15 Nov 2010 21:22:43 -0800
> From:    Lena Doubivko <doubivko at U.WASHINGTON.EDU>
> Subject: Re: a funny book, anyone?
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> Sergey Dovlatov's rasskazy are hilarious (mostly published abroad).
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> On Tue, 16 Nov 2010, Laura Kline wrote:
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>> Voinovich's "The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan  
>> Chonkin"
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>> From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list
>> [mailto:SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Slava Paperno
>> Sent: Monday, November 15, 2010 11:28 PM
>> To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu
>> Subject: [SEELANGS] a funny book, anyone?
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>> Dear Seelangers,
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>> I am passing on a question from my students, who are understandably  
>> puzzled
>> by the absence of lighthearted humor in everything they have read  
>> from
>> 1960-1989.
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>> Does anyone remember a book written in the U.S.S.R. in that period  
>> that made
>> you laugh (more than once, and preferably at least once every few  
>> pages)?
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>> Many thanks,
>>
>> Slava
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