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While Tolstaya is a caustic chronicler of perpetual yearning and casual cruelty, she can also be wildly funny, capturing the lunatic humor that leavens these hardscrabble lives. Lyonechka, a rarely employed writer who has already thrown away one newspaper job by introducing an unwelcome sardonic note to the obituary column, lasts no longer at a women's magazine after he starts a recipe with the words "Let's be frank -- there ain't nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Peering into The Russian Soul | 1/27/1992 | See Source »

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