"Deu por si em terras de Golovliovo, naquele lugar odioso que o trouxera ao mundo sem amor, que o criara sem amor, que o atirara para o mundo sem amor, e que agora, sem amor também, de novo o recebia no seu seio."

"A kind of doom seems to hang over some families. One notices it particularly among the class of small landowners scattered all over Russia who, having no work, no connection with public life, and no political importance, were at one time sheltered by serfdom, but now, with nothing to shelter them,

Uh, teško je bilo i dati i ne dati ovome peticu. Verovatno je moja greška to što sam ovo čitao odmah posle "Ponora" koji je remek delo. Šta je prevladalo da ide petica - to što je Arina Petrovna prokleto genijalna nadrkana babetina, to što Juduški hoćeš da kroz 350 strana 720 puta opališ šamarčinu,

Neither minds nor souls could keep their secrets from Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin and all those pitiful secrets were boldly revealed in this brilliant novel.
We Russians have no strongly biased systems of education. We are not drilled, we are not trained to be champions and propagandists of this or th