8 Don Please wouldn’t take no for an answer. The sadness of Addie Bundren’s passing amidst Cash’s adze just couldn’t take the sunshine. Please was delusional. Maybe,… Read more “8 The Bargain From “age = 25 A Postmodern Novel in Many Parts””
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David Grunwald is an American author whose latest book "Paper Mache 1917" is a unique look at the centenary of the Russian Revolution. In 2018 he published a German translation of Robert Bly's first poetry book "Silence in the Snowy Fields" originally released in 1962. A new book of poems entitled "Pure . Spring" has been released and is available on Lulu. In 2019 the first of two volumes of Richard Anenarius' "Kritik der Reinen Ehrfahrung (1921)" - Critique of Pure Pure Experience. The work is of important cultural significance and the revised German companion volume will be released at the same time.
Catherine II The Great Empress of Russia Violates Chatbot Use Policy
[undated] Letter 01262: To Count Nikita Ivanovich PaninFirst Line: Никита Ивановичъ! Вчерась, по благополучномъ моемъAuthor: Catherine II the Great (former) Empress of Russia (1729-1796)Addressee: Count Nikita Ivanovich… Read more “Catherine II The Great Empress of Russia Violates Chatbot Use Policy”
Pasternak’s Детство “Childhood” from Poems of 1905 and Coda
I am 14 years old.In a sculpting school.The wing where the worker’s facultyIs father’s workshop upstairs.In the distanceWhere centuries-old dust settles on Dianaand canvases,Is our door.There is… Read more “Pasternak’s Детство “Childhood” from Poems of 1905 and Coda”
Pasternak: “Fathers” from 1905 Poems translated by David Grunwald
Russia has a long revolutionary history with March 1, they have a name for it – Первома́ртовцы literally the first of March. “Pervomartovtsy” were the Russian revolutionaries,… Read more “Pasternak: “Fathers” from 1905 Poems translated by David Grunwald”
age = 25
Hello. Yeah, Navalny’s dead. The kaleidoscope fell in the mud and we all entered Pasternak’s Siberian dungeon. Ivan’s breath filled the arctic sky as he watched the… Read more “age = 25”
Can You Imagine That: Jorie Graham America’s Anna Akhmatova?
Graham’s latest poem “Upon the Farthest Shape You Know” is awesome. Stumbled onto the idea of incredulity reading Lietenant Keller’s response in Dostoyevsky’s “The Idiot” a tale… Read more “Can You Imagine That: Jorie Graham America’s Anna Akhmatova?”
Tucker Carlson’s Missing Chapters
Prelude to Soviet Union 1984 Trip Emerson once wrote that genius must use two gifts, thought and publication. The discerning intellect always races ahead of the creative. … Read more “Tucker Carlson’s Missing Chapters”
Soviet Union 1984
2/2/204 Rainy day diary entry: I was not aware of any real differences between Ukraine and Russia in 1984. The people and places I saw which included… Read more “Soviet Union 1984”
Göring: ‘Ich will keinen Gehenkten’ (I Don’t Want A Hanged Man)
11.05.1949, 13.00 Uhr • Aus DER SPIEGEL 20/1949 (translated by David Grunwald) https://www.spiegel.de/politik/ich-will-keinen-gehenkten-a-4985fa8a-0002-0001-0000-000044436848 Diels in 1933 The dueling scars were from earlier club competitions. Only the third… Read more “Göring: ‘Ich will keinen Gehenkten’ (I Don’t Want A Hanged Man)”
Rudolf Diels and the Founding of the German Gestapo
Totalitarian regimes don’t just happen. Individuals are identified as lynchpins in the crossover between a democracy and any totalitarian dictatorship. In the case of Rudolf Diels, police… Read more “Rudolf Diels and the Founding of the German Gestapo”
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