Anonymous places
Robert Chandler
kcf19 at DIAL.PIPEX.COM
Tue Jul 22 15:12:30 UTC 2008
Dear all,
A journalist friend has just asked me this question:
I am writing a piece about place and I want to mention the convention in
some Russian novels of representing places by saying something like 'In the
town of P' I wondered if you could possibly enlighten me as to why these
anonymity conferring initials were so widespread and whether they still are
a commonplace in Russian fiction?¹
I¹ve never given this any particular thought. Has anyone else?
Vsego dobrogo,
Robert
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