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Unwitting Street
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Surprisingly what stuck with me from this book was not the cold (wry) humor so deliciously omnipresent in Russian literature (Gogol, Bulgakov, the likes), but the language. I don't think I've ever read Russian literature "for the language" like I have with, say, Baldwin or Marquez. But Krzhizhanovsky (and translator Turnbull) was a most pleasant surprise. I left this text with more poetic inspiration than existential dread.
The stories themselves were mostly fun, and none could be called properly dull, but they weren't at all very hearty or "sticky." In short, rather forgettable. Interestingly enough, some stories failed in their over-expression of meaning (too allegorical!) while others fell into the kind of meaninglessness that determined a passing smile and forgetfulness. But all in all, the stories were creative and whimsical, and the language was enough to keep me around.
The stories themselves were mostly fun, and none could be called properly dull, but they weren't at all very hearty or "sticky." In short, rather forgettable. Interestingly enough, some stories failed in their over-expression of meaning (too allegorical!) while others fell into the kind of meaninglessness that determined a passing smile and forgetfulness. But all in all, the stories were creative and whimsical, and the language was enough to keep me around.
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