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The Continuity of Russian Literature
From Alexander II until the First World War, is there a break in Russian literature? Because when you talk about the great, you're talking basically about the 19th century. Leo Tolstoy would not have been because he believed in the complexity of things. A lot of great books are written, as they said, for the drawer. There'll be a pre-allucining called a fall, and some things will come out that were written twenty years before. Or this is Russian tradition of smuggling literature abroad, or even going into exile.