More specifically concerning: saltykov-shchedrin
smarts
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 […]
Adversaria (27)
30 June 2025, around 4.32.
‘Of course one must not tax an archaic god with the requirements of modern ethics’ —C.G. Jung (Answer to Job, trans. R.F.C. Hull, p. 9) ‘Although the disruptive students turned out to be very useful pedagogically—and analytically—for their willingness to express what others might only think about fat people, I still wondered: Why did the […]