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*Issue #1309 (75), Tuesday, September 25, 2007*
*Complete article at following URL:*
*http://www.times.spb.ru/index.php?action_id=2&story_id=23093*<http://www.times.spb.ru/index.php?action_id=2&story_id=23093>
Nice Guys Do Finish First
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By Mark H. Teeter
Four of the seminal figures of Russian literature in the second half of the
20th century — Vladimir Nabokov, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Joseph Brodsky and
Vassily Aksyonov — became citizens or long-term residents of the United
States. Bully for us, Americans might say, flattered that their country was
the venue of choice when these world-renowned writers became unwanted by
their homeland. Yet little beyond the simple fact of residence actually
unites this seeming "Russian-American" quartet, whose very different members
worked in very different genres and styles — and harbored very different
feelings about their New World host.
[ ... ]
Mark H. Teeter teaches English and Russian-American relations in Moscow.
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*Issue #1309 (75), Tuesday, September 25, 2007*
*Complete article at following URL:*
*http://www.times.spb.ru/index.php?action_id=2&story_id=23093*<http://www.times.spb.ru/index.php?action_id=2&story_id=23093>
Nice Guys Do Finish First
**
By Mark H. Teeter
Four of the seminal figures of Russian literature in the second half of the
20th century — Vladimir Nabokov, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Joseph Brodsky and
Vassily Aksyonov — became citizens or long-term residents of the United
States. Bully for us, Americans might say, flattered that their country was
the venue of choice when these world-renowned writers became unwanted by
their homeland. Yet little beyond the simple fact of residence actually
unites this seeming "Russian-American" quartet, whose very different members
worked in very different genres and styles — and harbored very different
feelings about their New World host.
[ ... ]
Mark H. Teeter teaches English and Russian-American relations in Moscow.
Search the archive: http://listserv.ucsb.edu/archives/nabokv-l.html
Search archive with Google:
http://www.google.com/advanced_search?q=site:listserv.ucsb.edu&HL=en
Contact the Editors: mailto:nabokv-l@utk.edu,nabokv-l@holycross.edu
Visit Zembla: http://www.libraries.psu.edu/nabokov/zembla.htm
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