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 4 years ago 

thank you. greetings back! are you avid reader, Claudia?

ps. objects do look different under lights or effects. to me, intresting and non-poor lighting is the basis of art of photography.

#onepercent #russia #affable

I LOVE READING. And russian literature is just... i don't have any words for how perfect it is. Are you an avid reader?

 4 years ago 

yes, I am. but i dont gravitate to Russian literature.

16 days late haha sorry, but why? i thing it is amazing.

 4 years ago 

ps. I can name you a few good names, from 1980-es and 2000-es. worth to know. but probably ypu already are in the know! have you heard anything of Victor Pelevin?

i havent heard of him,. I always welcome book recommendations and the more if its russian literature!!

 4 years ago 

aha! then, let me recomend you

  1. his short stories (i have no idea about the names for English compilations, but basically, his early stories from 1980-es and 90-es, dedicated (mostly) to the absurd life in the USSR
  2. 'P Generation' - novel about the nasty nature of advertising, and early days of the new Russia appearing on the ruins of USSR.
  3. 'Chapaev & Pustota' (I slightly remember the English translation was renamed to the 'Clay machinegun' or smth like that)

there are a lot of other great novels in his portfolio, but those 3 are the 1st to go, actually. to get acquainteed with this master.

Ok those sound very interesting i will surely check them out and read them eventually. Question, have you ever read The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn?

 4 years ago 

yes. but I read parts of this book. it is dedicated to the system of concentration camps created in USSR against the soviet citizens.

tho a book of the said author I enjoyed more, was 'The Red wheel'. or 'Lenin in Zurich' - fiction books dedicated to the Russian Revolution of 1917

Thank you so much for the recommendations!