Literary-Blog
"..descend for a moment into the realm of this ...
“Read in quest of minds more original than your own”. -Harold Bloom- Today’s passage is from the rather lengthy opening paragraph from Nikolai Gogol's “The Old World Landowners." It's a...
"..descend for a moment into the realm of this ...
“Read in quest of minds more original than your own”. -Harold Bloom- Today’s passage is from the rather lengthy opening paragraph from Nikolai Gogol's “The Old World Landowners." It's a...
"..his face, ....pure in line, as though carved...
Read slow and deep to fully extract every drop of meaning from a passage. There is a famous Russian novel written by Ivan Turgenev that focuses on underlying tensions within...
"..his face, ....pure in line, as though carved...
Read slow and deep to fully extract every drop of meaning from a passage. There is a famous Russian novel written by Ivan Turgenev that focuses on underlying tensions within...
"..respect each..human begin!"
Today’s passage is from a Russian play that is set in a derelict boarding house where a group of society's outcasts—prostitutes, thieves, casual laborers, the destitute and the derelicts—quarrel, play...
"..respect each..human begin!"
Today’s passage is from a Russian play that is set in a derelict boarding house where a group of society's outcasts—prostitutes, thieves, casual laborers, the destitute and the derelicts—quarrel, play...
'until the cup passes into other hands,"
19th century Russian literature was very rich in deep, philosophical writings that were sometimes moody, sometimes gloomy, often both. Today’s passage, from a chapter in “Ends and Beginnings” by...
'until the cup passes into other hands,"
19th century Russian literature was very rich in deep, philosophical writings that were sometimes moody, sometimes gloomy, often both. Today’s passage, from a chapter in “Ends and Beginnings” by...
"The rain will wet me, the sun will dry me."
Today’s passage is taken from a separate work, “Oblomov’s Dream,” which the author, Ivan Goncharov [gon-chr-rof], later incorporated as a chapter in his most famous novel, “Oblomov.” In “Oblomov’s...
"The rain will wet me, the sun will dry me."
Today’s passage is taken from a separate work, “Oblomov’s Dream,” which the author, Ivan Goncharov [gon-chr-rof], later incorporated as a chapter in his most famous novel, “Oblomov.” In “Oblomov’s...
"..an autumn rain, as fine as powered glass.."
Please excuse the length of today’s passage from “The Clown” by Alexis Peshcov, who wrote under the pen name Maxim Gorki, but I find myself completely mesmerized by the...
"..an autumn rain, as fine as powered glass.."
Please excuse the length of today’s passage from “The Clown” by Alexis Peshcov, who wrote under the pen name Maxim Gorki, but I find myself completely mesmerized by the...