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not in this case :)

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Posted by gnat on January 10, 2000 at 22:31:58

In Reply to: Cultural gap posted by Victor Khomenko on January 6, 2000 at 05:58:45:

Hi, Victor

I mean guys who discussed Cats.
Omer is from Israel, and his later comment about bitter-sweet
taste of the movie shows rather connection than gap. Jim is
seriously interested in war history, especially two WWs.

To be honest, I don't consider Remark a must-read. He's good,
sometimes very good, but his message and technical skills (at
least in translation:) are insufficient to put him into the
first row. His Front was essentially killed by Barbus' Fire
for me. Camerades seem to be a bit too melodramatic to become
a really great book. Black Obelisk... well, it's very good.

Your observation about not going back to his books later seems
true to me. Unlike your father, I don't think he's a teens
writer. I had no problems re-reading him in my late 20s and
I see no problems in reading him *first*time* in any age. Key
words here are *first*time*. That's about message and skills.
He hasn't these multiple layers of sense that force multiple
re-reading. Once you got him, you got lots of pleasure and
emotions, but also you got it all, there's nothing left to
investigate further.

BTW, I'm still making a list to cover your own gap :) in recent
russian movies. And it seems you haven't missed that much. I've
found one that is really good, but as Yankowsky fan you've probably
seen it. It's "Polyoty vo sne i najavu" (sorry, can't translate).
One from the second row is "Parad planet". And with some doubt,
"Izbrannyje"="Selected few" - it impressed me alot, but it was
10-15 years ago.

regards, gnat

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