Sinyavsky exploits the alien metaphor to the fullest by making his narrator an exotic plant that can barely survive in the harsh Moscow winter and the harsher Soviet communal apartment.
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Eliot Borenstein“Once again, a UFO has landed in America, the only country UFOs ever seem to land in.”
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Eliot BorensteinNew Book, New Blog: Russia’s Alien Nations
Eliot BorensteinAs some of you know, I spent a couple of years writing the first draft of “Plots against Russia: Conspiracy and Fantasy after Socialism” on my blog (plotsagainstrussia.org). Now that the book is coming out (from Cornell University Press, this March), I’m back to work on my next projects. And one of them is…another book whose rough draft will be posted on a blog.
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