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Article: New hope for Russian literature.
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- The New Leader
- Article date:
- November 1, 2002
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The Slynx By Tatyana Tolstaya Translated from the Russian by Jamey Gambrell Houghton Mifflin. 288 pp. $24.00.
RUSSIA is in the odd position of being a 10-year-old country with a thousand years of history. Some people, myself included, hoped and expected that the fall of the Soviet Union would release a little renaissance's worth of pent-up creativity, but that was not to be. Maybe Russian writers had grown so used to out-witting censors that they were stymied by the formlessness of freedom. Or maybe Russians who had been creating and consuming masterpiece after masterpiece for 200 years were simply tired of reading and writing and wanted to try something else for ...