On Tue, 4 Jul 2000, Mario Taboada wrote:
> To me,
> there's no greater artist of pure cinema than the
late Tarkovsky, and Andrei
> Rublev and The Mirror are his greatest
works.
I would've sneaked already out of this, but right now I just
can't: "The Mirror" is one of the best films ever made.
> To keep this on topic, what about modern Russian
hardboiled and noir
> literature? There's the right environment, lots of
stuff happening, a great
> tradition of dark literature. Yet I haven't come
across a single Russian novel
> on the topic. Are they just not being
translated?
I saw some paperback originals in Russian when I visited
Estonia couple of years ago (I am the worst traveller in the
world, don't go very often). They looked like some Jerry
Ahern books and usually dealt with the Afghanistan war. There
are some mystery writers there, but I don't know much about
them. The tradition of Russian or Soviet crime literature is
pretty much socialist realistic, but I do recall one
television series about the Moscow police just after the
Second World War. This was, to my reminiscence, a moody and
dark stuff. But then again, I was some ten years old when I
saw it.
By the way, IMDB claims that Lionel White's novel has been
filmed in Soviet Union!
Juri
jurnum@utu.fi
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