CFA salutes George Whitman (COM’35, SMG’35), who died at 98 shortly before Christmas, founded Shakespeare and Company, a harbor for any writer from expatriate celebrities to drug-addled wannabes, in 1951. Bracketed by the Seine and Notre-Dame, the store, named after the French bookshop that was the Jazz Age haunt of Hemingway and Fitzgerald, attracted its […]
Category: Books
Classic Satire from the Soviet Era
November 30, 2010 at 12:22 pm
It is difficult to spend time in Russia without thinking back to the Soviet Union. After all, it was not that long ago that the decision was made to dissolve it at the Belovezh Forest meeting in December 1991. One of the classic satirical novels of Soviet literature is Mikhail Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita. […]
