I know, for instance, the temperature range today in Chita (East Siberia). -6. So it varies.) It's -19 today in my hometown, Khabarovsk (Far East, one of the closest to China), and it's easier to sustain this -20 (or even -30) than Niigata's 0--5, that we have here.
Yes, of course I've read him, I'm Russian, you know.) And I like him, really, but for me his friend Anna Akhmatova (who had hard luck as well) or my favorite poet Brodsky (who also suffered much from the Soviet regime) were more gifted. I'm sorry to have told you Mandelstam was stereotypical - for foreigners the fact of knowing anybody except Solzhenitzyn or Dostoyevsky is itself a step out of line.
Well, it's your blog and you can write here whatever you want, so I'm really sorry for bothering you with all this stuff, because I realise that it looks like a complain that the whole world doesn't know a thing about Russia while discussing it (well, it doesn't, in most of the cases). ほんまに、大変申し訳ないんです。
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Date: 2010-01-26 08:15 am (UTC)Yes, of course I've read him, I'm Russian, you know.) And I like him, really, but for me his friend Anna Akhmatova (who had hard luck as well) or my favorite poet Brodsky (who also suffered much from the Soviet regime) were more gifted. I'm sorry to have told you Mandelstam was stereotypical - for foreigners the fact of knowing anybody except Solzhenitzyn or Dostoyevsky is itself a step out of line.
Well, it's your blog and you can write here whatever you want, so I'm really sorry for bothering you with all this stuff, because I realise that it looks like a complain that the whole world doesn't know a thing about Russia while discussing it (well, it doesn't, in most of the cases).
ほんまに、大変申し訳ないんです。