Candidates to Be Great Men

El Pais

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A few days ago, in the Culture pages of this newspaper, Rodrigo Naredo echoed a work published in an academic journal by a researcher at Cambridge University, Ekaterina Zadirko, in which she dealt with the newspapers of Soviet teenagers born in the 20th century between the end of the ten years and the beginning of the following decade. Apparently many showed “a disproportionate interest in becoming writers,” says Zadirko, and seeing what they wr…