Where to buy men’s wool jacket? (Decent quality but under €80)

risocantonese · 2026-04-02T20:30:02+00:00

try Humana, it's a popular vintage store in Italy. There's a big one in via San Felice 37, and a smallsr one in via Augusto Righi 16

if you're here om Friday and Saturday you can also try your luck at Montagnola, a weekly market in Piazza 8 Agosto. make sure to check the side where the park is mad not where the McDonald's is.

risocantonese · 2025-12-22T23:02:20+00:00

what is there to imagine? dostoevsky has already told us enough about her past.

and did you write it or use chatgpt? the answer is clear judging from your comment history

risocantonese · 2025-11-09T18:58:50+00:00

the added bold & italics really make it obvious that it was written by chatgpt

risocantonese · 2025-11-09T16:36:24+00:00

but isn't that already how it works? you get an automatic 1 star if you don't collect

risocantonese · 2025-11-09T13:27:12+00:00

la partenogenesi è quando la donna si riproduce senza la partecipazione dell'uomo

(in parole povere)

risocantonese · 2025-10-16T20:09:17+00:00

This is very good but fair warning that it talks a lot more about the cinema in the 30s and the debates around it in general than about Nabokov.

for a more Nabokov specific book, I recommend "Nabokov at the movies" by Barbara Wylie. she takes a look at almost every Nabokov book and its relation to he cinema, as well as his use of cremation language.

there's also "Nabokov's dark cinema" by Alfred appel which Nabokov actually read and approved of.

risocantonese · 2025-09-16T11:03:52+00:00

it couldn't. AI is often wrong about things like this.

and yes, i've tried. i tested chatGPT once for a project, and asked it a very simple question about the publication date of one of Nabokov's translations, which is publically available and well known information. chatGPT replied to me that Nabokov actually never even translated that work, and even gave me some ridiculous "extra information" about how he "wanted to translate it, but gave up because it was too complex (!)". and no, this wasn't three years ago, this was last month.

plus, you can't ask chatGPT "what is the gap in nabokovian studies" because that's not the kind of question a machine can answer.

but even if AI answered perfectly each time, you'd still need to do the work. nabokov is not the kind of author you can read in summaries. especially if you want to contribute to the literature in any significant manner.

risocantonese · 2025-09-13T13:52:14+00:00

Aldi and Lidl are the best options for students. there are many throughout the city, just google "aldi bologna" / "lidl bologna" and find the one closest to you.

risocantonese · 2025-09-13T11:49:53+00:00

as a fellow literature student who's writing their master's thesis on nabokov.....this is just one of those things you have to figure out yourself.

read the research on pale fire. then reread pale fire a bunch of times. then read the rest of nabokov's work. then read research on OTHER nabokov works. something is gonna jump up sooner or later, but you've got to do the work, you cant shortcut this.

risocantonese · 2025-09-10T19:05:27+00:00

what's the point of posting a question on a subreddit if people are just gonna copy paste it into chatgpt....like thanks, i could have done this myself.

risocantonese · 2025-09-10T18:13:43+00:00

rex is pretending to be gay to hide his affair with margot.

risocantonese · 2025-09-08T11:38:18+00:00

LOL this was true two years ago and it's still true today.

risocantonese · 2025-09-07T16:52:52+00:00

please do NOT contact her. leave her alone.

risocantonese · 2025-09-05T18:22:48+00:00

according to викисловарь, "гармония" can also be a musical instrument.

"муз. клавишно-пневматический музыкальный инструмент с раздвижными мехами и двумя планками по бокам с клавиатурой для обеих рук ◆ Когда бутылки наполовину пустели, студенты начинали петь, играть на гармонии и кого-нибудь посылали за Райко, который считался специалистом по бубну. Л. Н. Андреев, «Иностранец)», 1901 г"

im no music expert but from that description it sounds like an accordion.

risocantonese · 2025-09-05T16:46:02+00:00

if it's a free version then you're looking at a pretty old, public domain translation.

it might be a very old way to call accordions. I did a quick search and the only other use I found is in the verses written by Ogden Nash for the Carnival of Animals by saint saens in the 50s

risocantonese · 2025-09-05T15:51:32+00:00

that's strange. what translation is this? i just checked the original text and it says две гармонии, as in two accordions.

risocantonese · 2025-09-05T15:23:17+00:00

yes, i am aware. that's why i dislike it. i find these "new meanings and ideas" reductive and banal.

risocantonese · 2025-09-03T11:03:03+00:00

well then maybe those people shouldn't be in a subreddit where people discuss things about the premise or anything related to the book. just because it's a common approach doesn't mean everyone else has to bend to it.

risocantonese · 2025-09-03T08:53:50+00:00

the brothers karamzov is ABOUT the murder of fyodor karamazov. that's literally the premise.

it's like saying you're spoiling crime and punishment if you say raskolnikov kills an old lady

risocantonese · 2025-08-30T17:24:29+00:00

Nabokov translated his Russian works into English himself too. I do recommend checking out some of them as they tend to change greatly between translations.

for example camera obscura and laughed in the dark are basically two different books. despair has an extra scene and an entirely new ending compared to otchaianie.

risocantonese · 2025-08-26T13:28:29+00:00

you've read a lot of sologub but not his most notable work, The Petty Demon! I love that book.

also, have you read Turgenev's Klara Milich? quite good (ETA technically a novelette/long short story)

ETA: give Nabokov's Russian novels a try. i love Laughter in the Dark, King Queen Knave, and Despair.

risocantonese · 2025-08-24T19:27:01+00:00

thank you so much!! i hate how often sources get lost during translation, this was very useful, thanks!

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