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Classic Russian Writers: For teh Internets
As a freelance writer and editor, KA Semënova spends a lot of time on the Internet. She doesn’t hate it like Franzen does, but she’s often irritated by the solipsism and ahistoricism of the average Facebook feed. To test her theory that human nature is neither analog or digital—and to put her college minor in Russian to use, finally—she updates classics of Russian literature with modern technologies to see if the insights of those writers hold up today.
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September 2, 2014Classic Russian Writers: For teh Internets: Mikhail Lomonosov’s “An Evening Reflection Upon Digital Grandeur Prompted by a Great Electronic Glow.”
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August 12, 2014Classic Russian Writers: For teh Internets: Ilya Ilf and Evgenii Petrov’s The Golden Calf, Chapter 2: Children of ARPANET
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July 21, 2014Classic Russian Writers: For teh Internets: Vladimir Nabokov’s “Signs and Symbols.”
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June 26, 2014Classic Russian Writers: For teh Internets: Ivan Turgenev “Lieutenant Yergunov’s Story.”
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May 29, 2014Classic Russian Writers: For teh Internets: Fyodor Dostoevsky’s “A Novel in Nine Letters Messages.”
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May 2, 2014Classic Russian Writers: For teh Internets: Nikolai Gogol’s “The Overcoat.”
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April 11, 2014Classic Russian Writers: For teh Internets: Maxim Gorky’s “Her Lover.”
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March 24, 2014Classic Russian Writers: For teh Internets: Isaac Babel’s “My First Royalty.”
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February 27, 2014Classic Russian Writers: For teh Internets: Ivan Bunin’s The Village (Chapter 4)
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February 5, 2014Classic Russian Writers: For teh Internets: Nikolai Gogol’s “Nevsky Prospekt.”
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December 11, 2013Classic Russian Writers: For teh Internets: Mikhail Lermontov’s “A Dream."
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November 12, 2013Classic Russian Writers: For teh Internets: Nikolai M. Karamzin’s “The Island of Bornholm.”
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