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Word: shamanstvo (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1979-1979
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...ideas about important literature leaned more toward social and political content than art for art's sake. Nabokov demurred, but his answer was not frivolous: "The longer I live the more I become convinced that the only thing that matters in literature is the (more or less irrational) shamanstvo of a book, i.e., that the good writer is first of all an enchanter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Chain Mail | 6/18/1979 | See Source »

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