More specifically concerning: saltykov-shchedrin
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7 June 2025, around 7.39.
For reasons I cannot quite explain to myself, I was reading Pevear and Volokhonsky’s translation of Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin’s History of a Town (which they, with some cleverness, call Foolsburg). It is an amusing and somewhat mean-spirited novel; like many political novels, it loses something in being read outside of its time (or outside of the […]