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query about JV's Strogoff

From: aevans2 tds.net <aevans2~at~tds.net>
Date: Sun, 22 May 2011 11:47:12 -0400
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Dear fellow Vernians,

Here is a query from someone on another listserv. How would you answer him?
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Is Jules Verne's *Michael Strogoff: (The) Courier of the Czar* pretty much a
straight-forward melodramatic military romance in what would become the
manner of a Hollywood "Cavalry and Indians" film for kids in, let's
euphemistically say, "the classic mode" — pre-BROKEN ARROW (1950)?
Specifically, are there complexities in identification and sympathy, or are
we supposed to pretty much just root for Michael Strogoff, the Czar, and the
Russians, against the traitorous ex-Col. Ivan Ogareff and the savage
Tartars?
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All best,
Art
Received on Sun 22 May 2011 - 18:47:18 IDT

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