Wednesday Fatal and Non-Fatal Attractions

[evelyn_b]

What I've Finished Reading

Black Sun: The Brief Transit and Violent Eclipse of Harry Crosby by Geoffery Wolff. Large and sympathetic but not too fulsome biography of a dismally prudish sybarite and one-man death cult who also managed to publish some important authors in the 1920s before shooting himself and a girlfriend in a hotel room. Nothing

Comments

[egelantier]

hah, there are academic volumes upon volumes upon volumes, in russian, trying to Explain All about eugeny onegin, because it's deceptively simple but relies heavily on historical/societal context (or, to put it simple, is 85% based on memes/injokes/common knowledge of pushkin's day that we don't know about). what is eugeny onegin? We Just Don't Know.

this said, pushkin had more or less singlehandedly invented modern russian language as we know it, in a country where french was the default option for posh and literary. he's, indeed, Our All.