This inquiry came in the other day from a professor on the west coast. I'll crack the book out and take a look, but I fear this calls for a level of experise...
In the small window of time wherein Yeltsin flashed open the vaults of the KGB HQ, were any AIS-related documents forthcoming from the Russian Federation...
I append the announcement about the soon-to-be-released Russian TV serial on Solzhenitsyn's First Circle. It premieres on Jan 29 and will contain at least 10...
Alex Klimoff
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Jan 18, 2006 7:50 pm
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This half-hour programme, first aired on 17 January, may be of interest. Before speaking about his recent return to Russia, Stephan reminisces about his...
Thank you, Alex, for this information on the First Circle TV serial. Maybe some day it will become available in the US (Netflix?). Talking about movies, does...
This tape (VHS) used to be available from St.Petersburg bookstore on Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, a couple of years ago. I have no idea whether it is still on...
Alex Klimoff
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Jan 24, 2006 1:43 am
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... From: Kolya from Yahoo <aylok3@...> To: Krista Berglund <Krista.Berglund@...> Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2006 3:03:57 PM Subject: Re:...
Return of the bad old days? From the Sunday Telegraph ( http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/01/29/wruss29.xml ): Putin 'uses Soviet scare...
There is a fairly detailed review of the TV series in "Moskovskii Komsomolets" of Feb. 8, though the title is pretty baffling: "Kugovorot zeka v prirode": ...
Alex Klimoff
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Feb 8, 2006 2:39 am
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Jump to the article for photos: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/09/international/europe/09russia.html? _r=1&oref=slogin MOSCOW, Feb. 8 — A grandfatherly...
I suspect most everyone on the list already knows about this NYTimes article, but here it is, just in case: NEW YORK TIMES February 9, 2006 Toast of the TV in...
Alex Klimoff
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Feb 9, 2006 3:56 pm
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I have been working in Russia since November, in a very remote location on Sakhalin. I had the pleasure of watching the entire series on TV, and would...
Thanks for this. Here's a more direct link, though: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/musicfeature/pip/bnrd4/ I'm interested in domestic life at the Solzhenitsyn...
Hi! I just joined. I am a 48 year old attorney in Tallahassee, Florida, where I work in state government. I have a B.A. and M.A. in English literature, but...
Hi, Everyone in this group, I am a Chinese. I¡¯m living in the United States for now. Solzhenitsyn is the novel write whom I love the most. His first...
Hi, Everyone in this group, I am a Chinese. I¡¯m living in the United States for now. Solzhenitsyn is the novel write whom I love the most. His first...
Dear List, Gleb Panfilov's film First circle has appeared on DVD in Russian (without subtitles). So far the set of 4 dvds is available at least in Esterum.com...
Kiitos, Krista! I'm glad to see this production in commercial release -- now I just someone hope gets around to subtitling it. My command of written Russian...
... re the DVDs. I was in Moscow yesterday and the commercial one was certainly not yet available in any of the bookshops I went to. There are two pirate...
Mike Nicholson
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Feb 27, 2006 4:43 pm
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On 2/27/06, Mike Nicholson < ... Of course, if the bag belongs to the man who was reading Kommersant, perhaps you can arrange a swap. Steve [Non-text portions...
Back in my graduate school days, I always appreciated critical essays on whatever material I was covering, e.g. Cleanth Brooks had a great analysis of T.S....
Hi Mary-- Sounds like quite a story, and it could make a compelling book. But I'm not sure Solzhenitsyn would be the person to write it. It seems to me since...
There is a profound lack of commentary on this great work I think. It is all really a shame and quite depressive. Not one country has, to my knowledge, even...
Michael Why does no one discuss these days 'A Day In The Life' ? michael32se <zimmerman4@...> wrote: There is a profound lack of commentary on this great...
Yes, that is depressing! My own Russian is rudimentary at best -- not up to reading novels. Any of the translators on the list interested in taking on a...
The gulag produced Solzhenitsyn. And now North Korea has produced ... the musical, in which "audiences can find beauty in the misery of life in the prison...
Thank you for the responses. Having read Knots I and II, I regret there is not more commentary. The portrait of Lenin calls to mind Hannah Arendt's phrase "the...
Hello, I was wondering myself about knots III and IV. Why were they never translated? Was there too little interest in the first two? I also wonder if...
As someone who has read knots III and IV in Russian, I believe the market for an English translation would be very limited and such a translation is highly...
For those good souls inquiring about Knots 3 & 4 of The Red Wheel, I can offer a little bit of good news. Daniel Mahoney and I have put together The...
