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“Gable succeeded on-screen because of the promise of force behind the smile—that’s what made the smile knowing… He was like Jack Dempsey in a tuxedo…. Joan Crawford said [being near him made her have] “twinges of sexual urge beyond belief.”

- David Thomson, film historian, understander of sexual charisma, smart guy.

• Split screen photo grab by the fantastic Bohemea

The Footnotes of Mad Men.

 

By John Thornhill

Published: October 30 2009 23:33 | Last updated: October 30 2009 23:33

The Sacred Book of the Werewolf
By Victor Pelevin
Trans by Andrew Bromfield
Faber £8.99
FT Bookshop price: £7.19

The Good Angel of Death
By Andrey Kurkov
Trans by A Bromfield
Harvill Secker £12.99
FT Bookshop price: £10.39

One More Year
By Sana Krasikov
Portobello £10.99
FT Bookshop price: £8.79

She Lover of Death
By Boris Akunin
Trans by A Bromfield
Weidenfeld & Nicholson, £16.99
FT Bookshop price: £13.59

 

The death of Russian literature has been declared many times. Russian poetry was supposed to have perished tragically early, interred with the body of Alexander Pushkin in 1837 following his fateful duel. Then along came Anna Akhmatova, Boris Pasternak, Osip Mandelstam and Marina Tsvetaeva, an astonishing quartet of poets who revived and reinvented the genre in an explosion of creativity in the early 20th century.

Epic Russian novels, meanwhile, were pronounced dead after Fyodor Dostoevsky and Leo Tolstoy. But in describing the brutalities of the second world war and the gulag, Vasily Grossman and Alexander Solzhenitsyn proved worthy heirs of those 19th-century masters.

Once again it has become fashionable to argue that Russian fiction is over, buried under the rubble of the former Soviet Union. Critics have decreed that no classic works of Russian literature have emerged in the past 18 years.

That may be true, but green shoots are now pushing through the fallen masonry. Four new Russian novels reveal flashes of fabulous writing, at times reminiscent of the wild imaginings of Mikhail Bulgakov, the dystopic visions of Yevgeny Zamyatin or the gentle humanity of Anton Chekhov. Russian literature has long ago left Socialist Realism panting behind – now it is striding out in the company of Capitalist Surrealism.

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Posted by Jonathan Jones

Wednesday 4 November 2009 guardian.co.uk

If it weren't for the great anthropologist, who has died aged 100, I would never have learned a radical new way of looking at art history

 

 

The news that Claude Lévi-Strauss has died at the grand age of 100 brings back memories of my student days, which coincided with the intellectual dominance of this great French anthropologist.

For young would-be intellectuals in the 1980s, his books The Savage Mind and The Raw and the Cooked had a biblical status. Lévi-Strauss was the high priest of structuralism. Building on the linguistic ideas of Ferdinand de Saussure, he argued that all myth, and hence all pre-scientific thought, can be understood in terms of binary oppositions – such as, er, raw and cooked.

The strange and troubling grandeur of Lévi-Strauss lay in his insistence on the "synchronic" and contempt for the "diachronic": that is, he was interested in structures of thinking that endure over the very long term. He was apparently not interested in history, in change. Paradoxically, his ideas were of great interest to historians….

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