According to Ambrose Bierce in The Devil’s Dictionary: Dostoyevskian, n. 1. Person who sees her or his interests supported by principles and laws that are in fact harmful to her or his interests; 2. by extension, person blinded by anger, spite, or other passion such that she or he is no longer capable of seeing… Continue reading Definition of Dostoyevskian
Month: September 2017
Forgetting First Ladies’ Names
The bus ride was long from Zagreb. The route took us through Istria and seemed to include a stop at every little picturesque village, only there’s something about bus stops in picturesque Istrian villages—they become the ugliest parts of town when they put the bus station there. Even in Rovinj, which doesn’t have any ugly… Continue reading Forgetting First Ladies’ Names
Description of a Description of a Place
Imagine translating several Balzac novels with all their intricate Parisian detail but never having been to Paris, or a couple of Aleksandr Tišma novels without ever having set foot in Novi Sad. These are of course possible things to accomplish. The words are the words, and today more than ever before we have maps and… Continue reading Description of a Description of a Place
Russell Scott Valentino 