Queue in Russian Literature

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There is a great analysis of this "phenomenon" of Soviet every day life in
Vladimir Makanin's "Andergraund ili geroi nashego vremeni".
Alexandra Ioannidou
Thessaloniki/Greece
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> There is also the description of Ostap Bender trying and failing to cut to
> the
> front of the line at the post office at the end of _Zolotoi telenok_.
> Kukryniksy illustrated it in 1968 and put Il'f, Petrov, and all three of
> themselves in the illustration along with Bender. See the picture here,
> third
> from last: http://petrov.com.ua/GoldCalf/GoldCalf.htm.
>
> - Annie Fisher
>
> Quoting OLGA BUKHINA <obukhina at ACLS.ORG>:
>
>> On the humorous note -- in "Master and Margarita," in the description of
>> Massolit and a line to the "dachnyj otdel."
>>
>> "ïÞÅÒÅÄØ ÓÔÏÑÌÁ ÎÅ ÞÒÅÚÍÅÒÎÁÑ, ÞÅÌÏ×ÅË × ÐÏÌÔÏÒÁÓÔÁ".
>>
>> Olga Bukhina
>> American Council of Learned Societies
>> E-mail: obukhina at acls.org
>> www.acls.org
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>>
>> -----Original Message-----
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>> [mailto:SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU] On Behalf Of Alina Israeli
>> Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2005 12:33 PM
>> To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU
>> Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Queue in Russian Literature
>>
>> >I remember a depiction of a foodstore queue in winter early morning
>> >darkness for
>> >mattern calfs in Moscow in "Archipelag GULAG".
>>
>> What about Axmatova's Requiem?
>>
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