More specifically concerning: russia
Crambe repetita (22)
17 June 2012, around 18.03.
Blaise Cendrars, Moravagine.
sssllyyynnxxx
24 November 2012, around 6.14.
a few remark’s on Tatyana Tolstaya’s dystopian novel, The Slynx.
Crambe repetita (46)
15 July 2017, around 6.13.
Vasily Grossman, Forever Flowing.
testimonia
8 December 2019, around 16.05.
Vladislav Khodasevich and Nina Berberova, Sorrento, 1925. We perceived everything that happened then as an omen. But of what? —Vladislav Khodasevich (‘Muni’ in Necropolis, p. 83) It is difficult to know how to start thinking about Necropolis. Before I finished the book, I was certainly inclined to be dismissive – just so much gossip about […]
thrift
3 September 2025, around 16.11.
The local thrift store has been a surprisingly fruitful source of reading material this past year. The shop in town has produced d’Alembert and multiple volumes of Quine, while the shop at the mountain has yielded treasures such as a lightly pruned edition of John Dundas Cochrane’s A pedestrian journey through Russia and Siberian Tartary, […]