haha i wasn't accusing you of being categorical.
the odessa cycle and red cavalry are more or less simultaneous i think, published throughout the 20s, although the later odessa stuff does yeah push into the 30s? anyway yeah the odessa stuff is grrrrrrreat. there's also a play synthesizing a bunch of them, i guess, somewhere in the back.
― my Sonicare toothbrush (difficult listening hour), Monday, 29 August 2011 15:58 (twelve years ago) link
this wood essay is excellent as usual at describing style and (most importantly) at quoting, but lol @ wood being shocked, shocked! to discover soviet propaganda in the work of russia's star author of the 1920s
― my Sonicare toothbrush (difficult listening hour), Monday, 29 August 2011 16:05 (twelve years ago) link
That's a handsome-looking edition, Sonicare toothbrush. I've got the incomplete old Penguin collection, which does have a great photo of Babel on the front.
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140184627.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg
I love his stuff, the later stories especially, but even the early stuff is pretty amazing
― not bulimic, just a cat (James Morrison), Monday, 29 August 2011 23:27 (twelve years ago) link
goodness gracious.
― the-dream in the witch house (difficult listening hour), Tuesday, 30 August 2011 03:21 (twelve years ago) link
the long, fleshy, slavic ears are unfortunate, but at least he differs from trotsky in that he doesn't look like a cumulonimbus is gathering on his scalp:http://www.bhoutlook.us/bhoimages/booktrotsky-0814.jpg
― Iris, Wednesday, 1 February 2012 08:37 (twelve years ago) link
i googled "funnier than dostoyevsky"
― attempt to look intentionally nerdy, awkward or (thomp), Thursday, 24 January 2013 21:24 (eleven years ago) link
mainly because there were no results for "less funny than dostoyevsky"
Not sure I'd heard of him today but Collected Works looked interesting in a charity shop. Maybe name did ring a bell or it wouldn't have sounded like something to check out.
― Stevolende, Tuesday, 14 June 2022 19:34 (one year ago) link