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The Herodotus Project

I received an email from Shane Solow pointing me to the Herodotus Project, “an ongoing project documenting in photographs many of the places and artifacts mentioned by Herodotus (c 500 – c 425 BCE) in his Inquiries. This site is updated monthly with photographic tours that are hyperlinked with the text.”

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Chevengur by Andrei Platonov: “Down with earthly toiling for the poor / The soil will nourish us for free!”

Chevengur by Andrei Platonov (Ann Arbor: Ardis Publishers, 1978), translated by Anthony Olcott When we last left Alexander “Sasha” Dvanova, he was wandering the countryside at the request of the provincial executive committee president looking for spontaneous outbreaks of socialism in the countryside. Sasha is shot by anarchists but rescued by Stepan Efimovich Kopenkin, commander […]

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Ten Tales by Leopoldo Alas: Doña Berta

Ten Tales by Leopoldo Alas (Clarín) Translated from the Spanish by Robert M. Fedorchek Introduction by John W. Kronik Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2000 ISBN 0-8387-5436-8In this post I’m going to focus on the story “Doña Berta,” one of the richest and most perplexing short stories/novellas I’ve read. I commented on the other nine stories […]

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Ten Tales by Leopoldo Alas

Ten Tales by Leopoldo Alas (Clarín) Translated from the Spanish by Robert M. Fedorchek Introduction by John W. Kronik Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2000 ISBN 0-8387-5436-8 Reading and posting had suffered of late, so I’ll try and get caught up with a couple of posts on this collection of short stories by Leopoldo Alas. Ten […]