> I must admit I didn't read any yet, but seeing
the
> eclosion of French translations appearing these
recent
> years and seeing where they are published, Noir
must
> be a shade of some Russian modern
productions.
You might want to take a look at
http://www.cerc.unimelb.edu.au/russian/old-conf/razlog.htm
and
http://www.cerc.unimelb.edu.au/russian/old-conf/detect.htm
And if you want to read a hilarious, harrowing description of
Moscow's real life, HB kakistocracy, I heartily recommend the
recently published
"The eXile: Sex, Drugs and Libel in the New Russia" by Mark
Ames and Matt Taibbi (Grove Press, 238pp. oversized, $16).
They are two thirtysomething founders of a very controversial
Moscow biweekly (called The eXile) for the English-speaking
expat crowd. They tangled with Vladamir Putin before he came
to power (by offering bounties for the first person who
identified which school in Germany Putin sent his daughter
to, and a T-shirt to the first person to deflower her) and
they describe their (often hilarious) experiences with
brutal, capo-style capitalism, drugs, prostitution and
various related political scandals. All in all a fun
read.
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