The authorâs observations on the great nineteenth-century Russian writers-Chekhov, Dostoevsky, Gogol, Gorky, Tolstoy, and Turgenev. âThis volume... never once fails to instruct and stimulate. This is a great Russian talking of great Russiansâ (Anthony Bur « Une femme libre, sans culpabilitĂ©, est un joli cadeau pour un romancier. Demandez Ă Joyce. » One can make a very strong argument that the person who had the most influence on the course of history in the twentieth century was Vladimir Ilyich Lenin. Without him, the Bolsheviks could not have siezed power after the fall of the Tsar, and there would The impetus for this collective work comes from the attendance of ``language'' poets Davidson ( The San Francisco Renaissance ), Hejinian ( My Life ), Silliman ( Ketjak ) and Watten ( Conduit ) at a 1989 Leningrad conference on ``Language-Consciousness-So |