Conference: The Pain of Words: Narratives of Suffering in Slavic Cultures (May 9-11, 2008, Princeton)
Robert Chandler
kcf19 at DIAL.PIPEX.COM
Thu Nov 1 06:10:55 UTC 2007
I had not realized that Daniel Rancour-Laferriere, or anyone else, had
implied that these writers are all THEMSELVES masochists. I had imagined
R-L mentioned these writers because he thought that some of them, at least,
had something interesting to say ABOUT masochism.
R.
> What a discovery!!! I have never known that Avvakum, Custine,
> Chadaev,Lermontov, and Grossman
> were masochists. I will reread all these authors now with new eyes!
>
>
>
> Yevgeny Slivkin, Ph.D.
> Department of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics
> University of Oklahoma
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>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Daniel Rancour-Laferriere <darancourlaferriere at COMCAST.NET>
> Date: Wednesday, October 31, 2007 2:09 pm
> Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Conference: The Pain of Words: Narratives of Suffering
> in Slavic Cultures (May 9-11, 2008, Princeton)
> To: SEELANGS at BAMA.UA.EDU
>
>
>> 30 October 07
>>
>> Dear Alex,
>> Not to worry. There is no need to open Pandora's Box here, on the
>> list. It's the conference organizers who are trying to keep that box
>> closed as a topic of their conference at Princeton. Stay cool.
>> Glasnost' is out. Putin is in. If they are lucky, Avvakum, Custine,
>> Chaadaev, Lermontov, Grossman, etc. etc. will be contained, the box will
>> stay closed.
>>
>> Cheers to the list,
>>
>> Daniel Rancour-Laferriere
>>
>>
>> Alex Spektor wrote:
>>
>>> oh no! not another pandora's box. maybe we should quickly return
>> to kurva,
>>> shliuha and svat'ia baba babariha while there's still time.
>> Although I doubt
>>> there is...
>>>
>>
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