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1 Introduction : food and sex in Russian literature 1
2 Eating as power : Dostoevsky and carnivorousness 40
3 Eating as pleasure : Tolstoy and voluptuousness 98
4 Carnality and morality in fin de siecle and revolutionary Russia 158
5 Conclusion : Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and the human animal 227
Notes 239
Bibliography 301
Index 323
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reviewed Slavic Sins of the Flesh: Food, Sex, and Carnal Appetite in Nineteenth-Century Russian Fiction on May 10, 2014
Slavic Sins of the Flesh: Food, Sex, and Carnal Appetite in Nineteenth-Century Russian Fiction
Not as outrageous as, say, Pauline Kael, and not as snarky as, say, Anthony Lane or as loquacious as Greil Marcus or as rowdy as Lester Bangs, but Gary Giddins is still a critic that rocks.
A long time jazz writer who also writes often and well about film, books, and general culture, Giiddins has great taste and an informed, unpretentious, witty prose style. It brings out the value of people who made amazing art that might be overlooked these days- people like The Marx Brothers, Buster Keaton, Fritz Lang, John Cassavettes, Bresson, Clifford Brown, Albert Ayler, Duke Ellington, and many more.
I worry sometimes whether or not culture from before, say, the sixties gets sort of shunted to the side in terms of the public imagination. Mostly there's boomer nostalgia about hippie stuff or 70's era music. Don't get me wrong- I love that stuff as much as the next guy, but I think we already know how great it was.
What we need is to find the things that came generations before that and renew them. Charlie Parker is still cool. Jon Ford is still badass. Ralph Ellison should never be overlooked, even if people only know Invisible Man, great book that it is. Same goes for Jazz, of course- the music of Louis Armstrong and Duke and Bud Powell and Ornette and Coltrane and Miles and Basie and Sinatra and Sarah Vaughn and Billie Holiday is just as vital and irresistible as it ever was.
All we need is someone to help us figure it all out, explain it for us a little, and have the passion and the articulation to help make it new. Gary Giddins is one of those critics who helps to do just that.
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