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What is Russia-themed erotica really about? From Dostoevskian masochists to the icy femme fatales of the 20th century, Fiona Bell explores the cultural, political, and racial dimensions of erotica in Claude Anet's Ariane, a Young Russian Girl and beyond. Is it literary? Is it absurd? And what does it tell us about global desire?
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