Russian V cover

[Max Nemtsov]

thank you, Laura
the image is apparently culled from Bosch, don't ask. they also use his 
name in promo materials and in the book annotation. i don't know why. 
someone confused him with Botticelli, apparently

On 13.06.2014 17:59, kelber at mindspring.com wrote:
> Congratulations on  getting your cover, Max, stamp or no. It must feel great to see your hard work given shape and form. Hard to get a sense of the images, but they seem (in this blurred version) oddly 19th century-looking. Maybe I need a closer look. I applaud the fact that they're not using a sexy image to sell this "18+" book.
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> Kai, your daughter sounds amazing. My kids were still getting excited about Harry Potter in their teens, and made only rare ventures (outside of required school reading) into anything more challenging than Jane Austen. I read Crime and Punishment at age 13, followed by The Brothers Karamazov and War and Peace - but then, I was very shy and had no social life. Books are a great refuge at any age.
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> I can't think of a greater inducement to get teens to read than to stamp them with an obscenity warning!
>
> Laura
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>
> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Max Nemtsov <max.nemtsov at gmail.com>
>> Sent: Jun 13, 2014 9:33 AM
>> To: Kai Frederik Lorentzen <lorentzen at hotmail.de>, pynchon-l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>> Subject: Re: Russian V cover
>>
>> stand corrected )) "in russia"
>> they still consider it "a difficult read", even older readers.
>> a-and i applaud your daughter, Kai. what i said doesn't mean there
>> aren't any precocious readers at all. i don't think, personally, there's
>> any harm in reading TRP at, say, fifteen (before it might still be kinda
>> boring), but, apparently, not everyone in russia shares this point of view
>>
>> On 13.06.2014 15:20, Kai Frederik Lorentzen wrote:
>>>
>>>> the age marker (to be read only after you're 18 years of age; i
>>> don't have a problem with that for i can't imagine anyone reading TRP
>>> _before_ this age anyway) <
>>>
>>> My daughter, who read "Moby-Dick" in translation before she was ten,
>>> had her first TRP with twelve. Of "Vineland" and "Against the Day" she
>>> read about 150 pages in German. She liked it but realized the limits
>>> of her understanding. Four years later, when she spent a school year
>>> in Estonia, she picked up a copy of the original "Vineland" in a
>>> Tallinn bookstore, started to read and finished it in between days
>>> with enthusiasm. It was her breakthrough to American literature in
>>> original. Now she plans to study English (along with history). This
>>> morning she came back from her last class trip which had led her to
>>> Dublin. And you know what she brought home with her? A copy of
>>> "Ulysses"! Of course we have one in the house, but she wants to have
>>> her own.
>>> It's not bad not to understand everything as a young reader. Me I
>>> profited a lot from my juvenile misreadings.
>>>
>>> On 13.06.2014 10:25, Max Nemtsov wrote:
>>>> this is how it will look like:
>>>> http://spintongues.wordpress.com/2014/06/13/pearls-after/
>>>> sorry for the poor quality but you've got the idea
>>>>
>>>> the gray stamp in the lower left corner is the censorship stamp that
>>>> is demanded by the new russian anti-bad-words law: apart from the age
>>>> marker (to be read only after you're 18 years of age; i don't have a
>>>> problem with that for i can't imagine anyone reading TRP _before_
>>>> this age anyway), it should (by law) now contain the inscription
>>>> "Contains Unprintable Abuse" (something like this, for the russian
>>>> state duma, as everyone knows by now, is comprised of clinical idiots
>>>> who can't distinguish between obscene words, explicit lyrics, foul
>>>> language and, well, abuse). to the credit of the publisher, they
>>>> designed the stamp in such manner that it reads rather Yoda-like:
>>>> Abuse Contains (upside down) Unprintable
>>>>
>>>> and yes, it must be sold sealed in cellophane
>>>>
>>>> from your beleaguered translator
>>>> Mx
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