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Anything West of Chicago Is Not Necessary

By Scott Esposito ⋅ March 17, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

Andrew Seal argues that “Chicago and New York are to U.S. fiction what Tolstoy and Dostoevsky are to the Russians. Sorry, Boston. Sorry, L.A. Sorry, D.C. Sorry, San Fran. Sorry, the South. You have your claims, no doubt, but they are as the claims of Pushkin, Lermontov, Chekhov, or Gogol.” Discuss.

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  1. It’s funny that he compares the two cities to Tolstoy and Dostoevsky; Tolstoy always believed Moscow to be Russia’s true capital and cultural epicenter while Dostoevsky preferred St. Petersburg.

    Posted by OLGA | March 18, 2010, 9:24 am


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