review of Leaves from a Russian Diary – Chicago Evening Post 1-30-1925
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“A Sociologist’s Political Memories”
review of Sorokin, Leaves from a Russian Diary
reviewed by Lawrence Martin
The Chicago Evening Post Literary Review
January 30, 1925
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a “footnote”
I read Sorokin’s Leaves years ago, after “discovering” him. It was the second Sorokin book I read (after The Crisis of Our Age). It was unforgettable; it made a very strong impression of me.
This review conveys the excitement that the book conveyed. And it hints at some of its weaknesses, which I would say are those of a lot of good storytellers: a tendency at times to exaggeration and of, at times, “polishing the apple,” which is to say “prettying” incidents for effect.
— posted by Roger W. Smith
February 2024
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