I love cultural cross-references! But they are so hard to catch aren't they?
They are.. This was the hardest part about moving into a different country for me, that it involves not just a new language but also a whole new cultural set-up.. It gets better with time, but slowly because the volume of information is so big.
No, the only Tolstoy I've read is Leo. Tell me more? But vampires with less black leather sounds good. That and lace have been slightly over used in the vampire clothing department. Hee.
Aleksey (Aleksei) Konstantinovich Tolstoy is most famous for his satirical poetry under a nick-name "Kozma Prutkov". But somewhere in the middle he wrote these scary almost fairy-tale like stories as adaptation of some of Slavic folklore. Sadly I could not find any of his little stories anywhere for sale in English translations, but I will keep my eyes opened. The stories are great and very scary. There were films made, IMDB link here (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0866239/) . To confuse the matters there was also a famous 20-th century writer, Aleksei Nikolaevich Tolstoy. :D
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Date: 2007-03-24 10:56 am (UTC)They are.. This was the hardest part about moving into a different country for me, that it involves not just a new language but also a whole new cultural set-up.. It gets better with time, but slowly because the volume of information is so big.
No, the only Tolstoy I've read is Leo. Tell me more? But vampires with less black leather sounds good. That and lace have been slightly over used in the vampire clothing department. Hee.
Aleksey (Aleksei) Konstantinovich Tolstoy is most famous for his satirical poetry under a nick-name "Kozma Prutkov". But somewhere in the middle he wrote these scary almost fairy-tale like stories as adaptation of some of Slavic folklore. Sadly I could not find any of his little stories anywhere for sale in English translations, but I will keep my eyes opened. The stories are great and very scary. There were films made, IMDB link here (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0866239/) . To confuse the matters there was also a famous 20-th century writer, Aleksei Nikolaevich Tolstoy. :D