NP Vollmann's "Europe Central"

[Otto]

At p. 263 now and I'm still quote enjoying it.

Up to now, it is quite informative, I liked the pieces on Kaethe 
Kollwitz ("Woman with Dead Child"), the various chapters on Shostakovich 
& his women and the one on Roman Karmen ("Far and Wide My Country 
Stretches") very much.

Seems as if it's not bad to re-read the chapters on Russian Formalism in 
David Lodge's "Modern Criticism and Theory" (1988).

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"But maybe that's a normal symptom of youth's end, to feel that the 
sky's greyer and that most of what I used to call beautiful isn't more 
than glitter." (173)

"He dreamed that a bomb was singing to him. From far away, the bomb was 
coming to marry him. The bomb was his destiny, falling on him, 
screaming." (186)

"History can't be undone." (207)

"Leningrad is not afraid of death; death is afraid of Leningrad." (218)

"This was the moment when he understood that the representation of 
reality can be more real than reality itself." (231)


	

	
		
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