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goto11 on Oct 3, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: When Dickens Met Dostoevsky (2013)

Serials was a common way to publish novels in those days though. Dostoevskys books was also first serialized in magazines.

B1FF_PSUVM on Oct 3, 2019 [–]

Yep, I read Hesse's accusations about "l'age du feuilleton" and got the picture, but somehow the Russians seemed out of it.

Rocambole (French serials) still lends his name to adjectives ...

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