This just in
Michele A Berdy
maberdy at GMAIL.COM
Fri Jul 26 08:53:49 UTC 2013
If you'd like, you can comment on this New York Times story about the same
topic
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/25/russia-for-beginners-a-literary
-course-for-edward-snowden/?hp
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How about Solzhenitsyn's В круге первом?
"Неужели есть средства дознаться, кто звонил из автомата? Если говорить
только по-русски? Если не задерживаться, быстро уйти? Неужели узнают по
телефонному сдавленному голосу? Не может быть такой техники."
Jesse Stavis
Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Slavic Languages and Literature University of
Wisconsin-Madison
On 07/25/13, "Rylkova,Galina S" wrote:
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> I don't want to psychoanalyze Kucherena, but C&P is strangely fitting
> in this situation. If anything, C&P teaches that life is unpredictable
> (with all its imponderables, etc.), that nothing goes according to
> one's original plan (something that here in the US people tend to
> forget). I doubt that Snowden envisaged spending a month at the
> Sheremetievo airport and a negative reaction that he got at home. In
> the Dostoevskian universe, crime (one's ability to commit a crime) is
> extremely important. Once you've hit the bottom, you are immediately
> on the road to redemption. Something to look forward to in Putin's
> Russia :)
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> On Thu, 25 Jul 2013 10:25:25 -0400, Alina Israeli wrote:
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> > That's probably because he himself (Mr. Kucherena) never read any other
Dostoevsky novels, except the one included in the school program.
> > Some films would be good "Ошибка резидента", for ex.
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> > On Jul 25, 2013, at 10:09 AM, Robert Channon wrote:
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> > > hmmm...
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> > > What isn't mentioned is that the Dostoyevsky book was (according to
CBS, NBC and other media) CRIME AND PUNISHMENT! Is Mr. K hinting...?
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> > Alina Israeli
> > Associate Professor of Russian
> > WLC, American University
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> > (202) 885-2387 fax (202) 885-1076
> > aisrael at american.edu <aisrael at american.edu>
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