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Forgotten Treasures: A Symposium

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Juan Goytisolo is the author of numerous books, including "The Marx Family Saga" (City Lights Books)

Someone asked Nabokov the three novels of this century he preferred. His answer was: “Ulysses,†“A la Recherche du Temps Perdu†and “Petersburg†by Andrei Bely. I agree with him. But whereas everyone knows the first two, Bely’s masterpiece is almost forgotten both in Russia and in the West.

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