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A Broken Life, or Oberon's Magic Horn

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Valentin Kataev would live to be eighty-nine. He would survive World War I and the Civil War, and the dungeons of the Odessa Cheka. He would have a magnificent literary career, his books would be included in the school curriculum, and his plays would be performed at the Moscow Art Theater and on Broadway… But until old age, Kataev would retain his colorful, rich Odessa accent. Surviving video recordings clearly show and audibly reveal a genuine Odessan.
In the 1960s, Kataev would astonish the literary world with his new prose. The free organization of the text and its free relationship with chronology. A visible "spontaneity" of writing. Instead of a single plot, there would be a scattering of short stories. He would call this creative style "Movism," from the French "mauvais"—"bad, bad." It was either a joke or a coquetry. These "Movism" works were superbly written, and their author knew his worth.
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