Word: vladimir
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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FLOWER SHADOWS BEHIND THE CURTAIN (432 pp.)-Translated from the Chinese by Franz Kuhn and from the German by Vladimir Kean-Pantheon...
...virtuous widow, Moon Lady, and her infant son suffer for Hsi Men's egregious gong-kicking. The work is Ko Lien Hua Ying, or Flower Shadows Behind the Curtain, translated into German by Sinologist Franz Kuhn and now passed on to English readers, fire-bucket fashion, by Translator Vladimir Kean. The result, somewhat surprisingly, is wry and readable...
...square, and the moon was gaily displayed as the latest Soviet plaything. Holiday marketers crowded the shops. Restaurants were jammed. And at the Kremlin reception, there was dancing for the first Nov. 7 since Lenin and Trotsky took over the place in 1917. After leading the grand march into Vladimir Hall, Premier Khrushchev begged off, saying his sister had tried to teach him to dance long ago, but "my legs just wouldn't move properly." The music was rather slow and dignified, the polkas, waltzes and 19th century Russian ballroom dances that the Czar's court once favored...
INVITATION TO A BEHEADING (223 pp.) -Vladimir Nabokov-Pufnam...
...Real Life of Sebastian Knight, by Vladimir Nabokov. Early Nabokov (circa 1941) is better than Late Almost Anybody Else,.and in this novel his paradoxical mind plays trenchantly over the nature of reality, identity, and the artist's task...