ochered'

[Emily Van Buskirk]

I highly recommend the passages on standing in line for bread from Lydia 
Ginzburg's "Zapiski blokadnogo chelovela."  It is a specific context, 
the Leningrad Blockade, but Ginzburg launches into a theory of 
conversation, and also of gender roles and lines.  You can find this in 
English as _Blockade Diary_ (trans. Alan Myers), or in _Chelovek za 
pis'mennym stolom_ or in the 2002 edition of Ginzburg's work _Zaspinye 
knizhki.  Vospominaniia.  Esse_ (see especially 633-640).  (The entire 
2002 edition is online at: 
http://www.srcc.msu.su/uni-persona/site/authors/ginzburg/ginzburg.htm)  
There are separate notes about ocheredi, for example in the 1940s 
section of Ginzburg's Zapisnye knizhki -- see the 2002 edition 175-180.  
On 343 of the same edition (1989), she comments on Mikhail Epstein's 
essay "Ochered.'" 

Best regards,
Emily

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