Hmm... just realized that reading fiction in translation feels more like reading non-fiction than fiction in a language you know.
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@vgr I have more affinity for Dostoyevskii, Solzhenitsyn, Bulgakov. Never gravitated Russian poets though. Wonder if@hipbonegamer did? -
@zenpundit Dostoyevsky is definitely very Russian. No American could have written things like that. - 1 more reply
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@vgr Chekhov lived through Russia's Silver Age which may have improved his resonance w/ foreign readers and authors.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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