Month: February 2021

Читаем рассказ Владимира Набокова “Путеводитель по любимым местам” в 2021

One of our first reading assignments is Nabokov’s “The Guide to Berlin,” an ostensibly unconventional guide to the German capital of the 1920s. I found the story to be well suited to represent cultural, linguistic, psychological, material and political challenges that Russian exiles of the 1920s were facing in their adoptive environments and the role […]

Иван Бунин “Холодная осень”

Discussion Prompts for Cold Autumn by Ivan Bunin. While preparing for a discussion and writing a diary piece, please focus on using the vocab and phrases from the story which makes it easier for you to put down a vocab portion for the week. Я хочу поделиться с вами комментариями о том, почему и как […]