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Horrors and Perversions
Kellock, Harold | October 16, 1929 issue

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This article literally appraises the book "Rasputin," by Ivan Nazhivin. The book was translated by C.J. Hogarth and Alfred A Knopf. Ivan Nazhivin's "Rasputin" consciously takes the form of the Russian classics. Its loose-jointed narrative sprawls through two volumes to a total of 750 pages. Its scenes shift rapidly from village to city and hack, and many of the minor village scenes particularly seem authentic and alive even though the persons depicted are touched with madness. The book is overpopulated with confusing multitudes of characters who murder one another and bob before ikons and endlessly discuss their souls, altogether in the traditional Slavic manner.

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RASPUTIN (Book); NAZHIVIN, Ivan; CLASSICAL literature; LITERATURE, Ancient; BOOKS & reading; SLAVIC countries
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