Olga Slavnikova’s “The Man Who Couldn’t Die”
I love the nineteenth-century Russian literary giants, Pushkin, Gogol, Goncharov, Dostoevsky, Turgenev, and Chekhov, who wrote exquisite, brilliant fiction and poetry despite censorship and threats of exile. I wish I could equally admire the Soviet writers, but the repressive Soviet regime clamped down too hard. If they wrote at all, they were not published, or … Continue reading “Olga Slavnikova’s “The Man Who Couldn’t Die””