Category Archives: Idée Vixe
New Paris chapter
I decided that after finishing Émigré Dacha, I would go back to the text of Idée Vixe and created a second edition, with a brand new first chapter. This new chapter would be about Vixey in Paris, during the summer … Continue reading
Nevsky Prospekt
Now and then I reread Gogol’s Nevsky Prospekt, and am always impressed by the potency and importance of this work. We all came from Gogol’s Petersburg stories,- myself, Dostoyevsky, Bely, Nabokov, Bulgakov, Babel, Zamyatin, Teternikov, and Turgenev. No comparison is intended … Continue reading
Themes and Structure of Idée Vixe
In his preface to Caesar and Cleopatra, Shaw wrote, “There is a foolish opinion prevalent that an author should allow his works to speak for themselves, and that he who appends and prefixes explanations to them is likely to be … Continue reading
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