On May 14, 2010, at 9:16 AM, Alexey Sklyarenko wrote: Dear Carolyn, Belyi isn't a Soviet writer. Neither is Chekhov. He came from medvezhiy ugol (a god-forsaken place) of Russia (Taganrog), but is too great an artist to be dismissed as provincial.
Dear Alexey,Some of Chekhov is provincial, but not in the derogatory sense - - yes, agreed. But in what way is Bely not a soviet writer? Has anyone ever speculated, by the way, as to what kind of soviet writer Nabokov would have made?
Carolyn