Petersburg is nice (though it's bursting with tourists and I got heartily sick of all the Tzar stuff after a while) but modern Russia is weird. It's like - here we have a statue of Lenin! And here's our MacDonald's!
The epilogue is creepy - it's a gulag, and you expect horror and instead it's more of an idyll and you get the whole repenting thing. It's like what would happen if Sonia had written the ending.
Did you know that there's a C&P movie with John Simm as Raskolnikov? I went looking for movie versions and it gave me the lulz to find that one.
Vladimir/Estragon? Yep. I mean, the embracing. And the not being able to leave each other. There's talk about a production with Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart. I'd love to see that.
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Re: I am way jealous of you for having been to Petersburg.
Date: 2008-06-01 10:00 am (UTC)The epilogue is creepy - it's a gulag, and you expect horror and instead it's more of an idyll and you get the whole repenting thing. It's like what would happen if Sonia had written the ending.
Did you know that there's a C&P movie with John Simm as Raskolnikov? I went looking for movie versions and it gave me the lulz to find that one.
Vladimir/Estragon? Yep. I mean, the embracing. And the not being able to leave each other. There's talk about a production with Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart. I'd love to see that.