UD has already blogged about Moscow’s new suicidal metro stop. Now, riders respond to the station.
Vladimir Supkin, a professor of Russian literature at the International University in Moscow, says he is completely against the murals.
He says the station is not a happy one. He says when he saw it, he was very scared because the station isn’t light, it’s very dark. He says the murals aren’t calming and that they are very strange, and he adds that they put people in very bad moods.
Supkin goes on to say that he doesn’t understand why the author was even chosen to be the face of the new station.
He says that first of all, people don’t read as much as they used to and people know his name, but they don’t read his novels. He says he thinks that Dostoevsky isn’t a very popular author now and that people like to read Tolstoy more.
With Tolstoy you get a choice: Ivan Ilych on his deathbed or Anna Karenina at the train station.
July 11th, 2010 at 11:09AM
The only time I talk about Anna Karenina is to speak ill of it. I mean, when she finally dives on the tracks I was thrilled because the long, bleak, dreadful novel was coming to an end. [Still bitter after all these years!]
My undergrad professor gave me a C on a well-written look at the precise and exhausting use of Victorian convention *despite* a terrible story. His only comment on the paper: “I don’t care for your understanding of the novel.” Still makes me laugh how bitter he was that i thought that book sucked.