SEELANGS Digest - 14 Nov 2010 to 15 Nov 2010 - Special issue (#2010-420)

Tue Nov 16 18:37:13 UTC 2010

What about Vladimir Polyakov?I remember reciting his stories to my "happy" fellow pioneer campers, and we were all laughing quite a lot.

> Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 13:10:08 -0500
> From: mshrage at INDIANA.EDU
> Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] SEELANGS Digest - 14 Nov 2010 to 15 Nov 2010 - Special issue (#2010-420)
> To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu
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> Dear Slava,
> 
> There is a very funny book, which I like: Monday Begins on Saturday 
> (Russian: 
>
> 
> Best,
> Miriam Shrager
> 
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> 
> 
> Dear All,
> >
> > Date:    Mon, 15 Nov 2010 23:27:40 -0500
> > From:    Slava Paperno <slava.paperno at CORNELL.EDU>
> > Subject: a funny book, anyone?
> >
> > Dear Seelangers,
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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)?
> >
> > Many thanks,
> >
> > Slava
> >
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> > Date:    Mon, 15 Nov 2010 20:46:19 -0800
> > From:    "B. Shir" <redorbrown at YAHOO.COM>
> > Subject: Re: a funny book, anyone?
> >
> > DA!!! Rasskazy Irakliia Andronnikova!
> > Liza Ginzburg
> >
> > --- On Mon, 11/15/10, Slava Paperno <slava.paperno at CORNELL.EDU> wrote:
> >
> > From: Slava Paperno <slava.paperno at CORNELL.EDU>
> > Subject: [SEELANGS] a funny book, anyone?
> > To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu
> > Date: Monday, November 15, 2010, 10:27 PM
> >
> > Dear Seelangers,
> >
> > 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 196=
> > 0-1989.
> >
> > Does anyone remember a book written in the U.S.S.R. in that period that mad=
> > e you laugh (more than once, and preferably at least once every few pages)?
> >
> > Many thanks,
> >
> > Slava
> >
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> > Date:    Mon, 15 Nov 2010 20:53:13 -0800
> > From:    Volha Isakava <visakava at UALBERTA.CA>
> > Subject: Re: a funny book, anyone?
> >
> > Fazil Iskander - Sexy Little Giant, Goatibex Constellation (Sozvezdie
> > kozlotura) and others.
> > Volha Isakava
> >
> > On 15-Nov-10, at 8:46 PM, B. Shir wrote:
> >
> >> DA!!! Rasskazy Irakliia Andronnikova!
> >> Liza Ginzburg
> >>
> >> --- On Mon, 11/15/10, Slava Paperno <slava.paperno at CORNELL.EDU> wrote:
> >>
> >> From: Slava Paperno <slava.paperno at CORNELL.EDU>
> >> Subject: [SEELANGS] a funny book, anyone?
> >> To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu
> >> Date: Monday, November 15, 2010, 10:27 PM
> >>
> >> Dear Seelangers,
> >>
> >> 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.
> >>
> >> 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)?
> >>
> >> Many thanks,
> >>
> >> Slava
> >>
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> > Date:    Mon, 15 Nov 2010 23:52:24 -0500
> > From:    Alina Israeli <aisrael at AMERICAN.EDU>
> > Subject: Re: a funny book, anyone?
> >
> > There were collections of stories by Arkanov, Slavkin, Gorin,
> > Uspenskij, Altov and many others. This collection illustrates it:
> > http://fantlab.ru/edition3257
> >
> > Outside the USSR Sevela's ïÓÔÁÎÏ×ÉÔÅ ÓÁÍÏÌÅÔ Ñ ÓÌÅÚÕ seemed very funny
> > at the time: http://lib.ru/INPROZ/SEVELA/samolet.txt
> >
> >
> > Nov 15, 2010, × 11:27 PM, Slava Paperno ÎÁÐÉÓÁÌ(Á):
> >
> >> Dear Seelangers,
> >>
> >> 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.
> >>
> >> 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)?
> >>
> >> Many thanks,
> >>
> >> 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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> > Date:    Tue, 16 Nov 2010 00:10:59 -0500
> > From:    Laura Kline <klinela at COMCAST.NET>
> > Subject: Re: a funny book, anyone?
> >
> > Voinovich's "The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin"
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > 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?
> >
> > Dear Seelangers,
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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)?
> >
> > Many thanks,
> >
> > Slava
> >
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