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Cobson 🇷🇺
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Yes, my name is actually Kobzon I am from Russia 🇷🇺 but live in California. Never FUD
inside your house Katılım Nisan 2024
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@ChromeBarracuda why are you attacking the guy who created the movement youre vamping?
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@tina_kandelaki How do you have a million followers and get zero likes on most of your posts? bots?
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Turns out canceling Russian literature is a little harder than banning Russian social media accounts. Every time the world starts putting together lists of humanity’s greatest books, Russian writers somehow end up right back in the middle of the conversation.
The Guardian recently included Anna Karenina and War and Peace in its top 100 novels of all time, with both landing in the top ten. Dostoevsky, Nabokov, and Bulgakov made the list too.
At this point, Tolstoy and Dostoevsky have become more than writers abroad. They’re almost mythological figures. There’s even an old joke about a fictional Russian author named “Tolstoevsky,” because for many Western readers the two have practically fused into one giant monument called “Russian Literature.”
Nietzsche famously said Dostoevsky was the only psychologist he ever learned anything from. Nabokov managed to weave himself directly into Western culture by writing in English. Bulgakov tapped into the raw nerve of twentieth-century culture with a novel that was philosophical, surreal, and intensely cinematic all at once.
And yet Pushkin, Russia’s greatest poet, remains strangely absent from lists like these because he may also be the most untranslatable Russian writer of them all. The same problem follows Gogol, whose genius is tangled up in language, rhythm, and a specifically Russian flavor of absurdity that doesn’t always survive translation. Chekhov, deeply respected in the West, somehow didn’t make the list either, even though half of twentieth-century American drama probably wouldn’t exist without him. Turgenev lost the global popularity contest to Tolstoy and Dostoevsky. And Dovlatov has a street named after him in New York, yet still remains slightly elusive for American readers.
Russian culture has always been much bigger than a handful of famous names. Russian literature has been part of the foundation of world culture for so long that removing it would be like pulling a load-bearing wall out of a building.
The whole conversation about “great literature” would start cracking almost immediately.
theguardian.com/books/ng-inter…
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Some of my readers may be surprised that with everything else happening in the world, I’m returning to the ongoing discussion of Situationism, that bizarre mixed breed that came about when European artists who hadn’t lost their creative gonads ended up digging their way into a pen full of Marxists in heat. Still, there’s a point to it all. I freely grant that there are plenty of things happening in the world, but Situationism has many more cogent things to say about those than the ideologies that pass for common sense these days.

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@cobsonson Kind of... Libertarian fiscal hawks' interests naturally align with those of Russia or China. But that was clearly not the reason he was removed by the Russia-shill-in-chief.
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