forgotten superstars

[Victoria Thorstensson]

How about (I do not think these were mentioned yet):

Aleksei Pisemskii (truly a classic!)
Boleslav Markevich (thought to be a classic by many)
Vsevolod Krestovskii (although this guy is becoming a star nowadays--a new wave of popularity)
Viktor Avenarius (his historical fiction was immensely popular, and they are trying now to bring him back and even published some of the more interesting works)
Petr Boborykin (produced a novel a year, was a "mastityi belletrist")

Chukovskii used to rave about a "forgotten classic" Vasilii Sleptsov--but I do not think he made a very good case, at least for a "classic". 

Vika Thorstensson
UW-Madison



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From: Marcus Levitt <levitt at COLLEGE.USC.EDU>
Date: Thursday, March 12, 2009 11:22 am
Subject: [SEELANGS] forgotten superstars
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