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Thing is, we grew up with a very different concept of the American culture. Now, there was some overlap (Westerns, Hemingway, Moby Dick, Uncle Tom, Mark Twain), but these four are examples of authors way more popular in the USSR than in their native country..
Thing is, we grew up with a very different concept of the American culture. Now, there was some overlap (Westerns, Hemingway, Moby Dick, Uncle Tom, Mark Twain), but these four are examples of authors way more popular in the USSR than in their native country..
Now, most people have heard of Cooper, but it's mostly due to The Last of the Mohicans, while in Russia, his entire body of work was hugely popular. I read Deerslayer when I was 8. There are people back there who know the Susquehanna River only because of his novels...
Mayne Reid was an absolute icon for Soviet boys. Ask anyone in Russia about the Headless Horseman, and they will talk about Reid's novel and not about Washington Irving's Sleepy Hollow. The reason, most likely, is that he was much easier to translate...
