From a Dead Beat to an Old Greaser

[Thomas Eckhardt]

Especially "dreary politcal rectitude"...

I recently discovered the Strugatskys whose wonderful later works read 
like Kafka on LSD.

Andrei Bely's "Petersburg" is a masterpiece (Nabokov agrees).

Am 12.12.2019 um 16:51 schrieb Laura Kelber:
> I agree with all of this, Rich. There are minefields of gratuitous violence
> and cruelty (it sells!) and dreary political rectitude (the critics behoove
> themselves to praise it) that scare me away from a lot of current
> literature.