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Сообщение от Yaya
Saltykov-Shchedrin, with their low grades would not receive my certificate of merit "V. Nabokov, Lectures on Russian Literature"
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Nabokov could not like the Saltykov-Shchedrin, by definition. They are too different. Saltykov-Shchedrin, a pragmatist in his vital functions (governors and officials) was a romantic at heart, like a true Russian intellectual, but Nabokov - refined aesthetic person - the soul was a pragmatist, as the true Western intellectual. But both of my favorite writers.