From a Dead Beat to an Old Greaser

[Charles Albert]

Don't blame yourself for Petersburg.....It's something that should be read
"in line"...In isolation, Bely just kinda rails, in context, it has some
purpose...I guess.

love,
cfa

On Fri, Dec 13, 2019 at 9:38 AM rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:

> the movie version of Hard to be a God is worth seeing, too
>
> I tried reading Petersburg in translation but I wasn't captured by it. it
> may be an old Penguin Classic. felt same way about Berlin Alexanderplatz
>
> rich
>
> On Thu, Dec 12, 2019 at 4:46 PM John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Strugatsky Brothers hell yeah! Last year I raced through Hard to be a God
> > in the grip of a flu fever and it was one of the better reading
> experiences
> > of the year.
> >
> > > > 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.
> > > > --
> > >
> >
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