forgotten superstars

[Alina Israeli]

Certainly neither is forgotten:

Just look at the number of films based on Pikul's novels:

http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%B8%D0%BA%D1%83%D0%BB%D1%8C

As for Efremov, if you are not a sci-fi buff you would not know him. 
Just consider the sites that offer free download of his work:

http://lib.aldebaran.ru/author/efremov_ivan/
http://bookz.ru/authors/efremov-ivan.html

And the list goes on.

AI

trubikhina at AOL.COM wrote:
> Are you interested only in Russian writers or more recent, Soviet 
> "superstars" that are becoming/have become quickly forgotten?
> How about Ivan Efremov or Valentin Pikul'. The latter was a staple of 
> "defitsitnaia makulaturnaia literatura."
>
>

Alina Israeli
Associate Professor of Russian
LFS, American University
4400 Massachusetts Ave.
Washington DC 20016
(202) 885-2387     fax (202) 885-1076
aisrael at american.edu

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