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Originally Posted by Eric
I'm sticking to my guns: I'm trying to find out what has been written recently in Russia. After all, Russia as a country is never out of the news, but Berberova died in 1993 in her nineties, after 25 years in Paris, and 40 years in the USA. Imagine if we only discussed pre-WWII English literature (because she wrote little after) written by Brits living in India and Alexandria, regarding anything written thereafter as "too modern for consideration"!
I want to know what Russians are writing now, in Russian, in Russia, the Baltics, the ex-USSR, etc.
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If you want to start a thread on contemporary Russian literature, to the exclusion of what it draws upon (and Russian lit more than others depends upon its history), go for it, but somewhere else, please. Berberova wasn't even Englished until the late 80s. (What, maybe everybody shoulda just STFU about
Suite Francaise?) Too bad you don't possess an imagination that could conceive of both current and prior writing as being of interest, or that might admit that standing the test of time might indicate some winnowing out of the 99% of everything that's not up to snuff.