Showing posts with label russia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label russia. Show all posts
Thursday, May 13, 2021

From The House of the Dead by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky‘s From The House of the Dead is not a novel. Though its principal character, its narrator, the upper-class Goryanchikov, ...

The Master of Petersburg by J M Coetzee

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J M Coetzee’s The Master of Petersburg had a particular effect on this reader in that it prompted me to read From The House of the Dead by D...
Monday, December 28, 2020

From The House of the Dead by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky‘s From The House of the Dead is not a novel. Though its principal character, its narrator, the upper-class Goryanchikov, ...
Monday, December 21, 2020

The Master of Petersburg by J M Coetzee

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J M Coetzee’s The Master of Petersburg had a particular effect on this reader in that it prompted me to read From The House of the Dead by D...
Tuesday, March 13, 2012

The Great Railway Bazaar by Paul Theroux

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When, some thirty years later, Paul Theroux repeated the journey that he had described in The Great Railway Bazaar, he declared travel writi...
Friday, October 14, 2011

Costa Blanca Arts Update - Russian Pianist Elena Lasco plays jazz in Teulada-Moraira´s Auditorium

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Elena Lasco’s jazz presents an eclectic mix. But this is eclecticism with focus, a focus that is provided by her perhaps unique musical pers...
Monday, September 14, 2009

Piano recital by Elena Lasco, classical artist meets jazz virtuoso

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During a recital some years ago, a pianist introduced a Chopin Impromptu by describing its improvisatory essence, likening it to a snapshot ...
Monday, October 22, 2007

A review of Black Snow by Mikhail Bulgakov

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Black Snow is a novel by Mikhail Bulgakov. This apparent platitude is full of contradiction. The book is perhaps better described as an auto...