Monthly Archives: April 2011

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Isaiah Berlin, visiting Moscow in 1945, complained of the “remarkable pall of total inertia” that hung over Soviet writers. Most had been reduced to the confines of prescribed socialist realism, a genre of homily derided as “boy meets tractor”. Bulgakov … Continue reading →

Socialist Realism, the approach prescribed for writers and artists in Stalin’s Soviet Union, has long been described, usually with a sneer, as neither “socialist” nor “realist”. Western critics then pass on to what they judge to be “real” art – … Continue reading →

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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/12/opinion/12brooks.html?src=ISMR_HP_LO_MST_FB Here is Cockeyed Platonist (CP) at the point of literary desperation, as his deadline draws near. Here are a mass of disparate quotations pressed into a nearly readable, yet thin,essay on 'The Poetry of Everyday Life'.He goes all over … Continue reading →

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