литературная хронология ХХ века, or On Russian vs French second-tier fiction

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The first half of this post - an excerpt from N+1, an on-line literary magazine - happened to come in English

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[_rowan_tree_]

Don't forget "science fiction" - Ефремов, Стругацкие. That was almost the only stuff really worth reading. It also provided a connection to western literature since translations of science fiction were less scrutinized than other western literature.

There were also a few descent books among war novels. I suppose it belongs to the "heroic" category, but it was really a thing in itself.

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I almost agree about "almost the only stuff really worth reading" :)
I mentioned science fiction (well, fantasy - but back then the boundaries were not yet drawn, and even Dandelion Wine was officially labeled "science fiction"), along with history and children books, among the genres I would not talk about. Partly because they were treated somewhat differently by censorship, partly just to limit the scope...

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