Words in the Snow: A Book about Russian Writers
14.99 €
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Words in the Snow: A Book about Russian Writers
14.99 €
The author's new book is dedicated to a special topic - the world of Russian prose. How, from what and, most importantly, why does it enter our bustling world?
The book has 19 chapters, each of which is dedicated to one of the famous or forgotten writers. Here are portraits of the famous Gogol, Turgenev, Olesha, Trifonov, and the half-forgotten Savin, and the little-known Serge. Such different writers, such different eras... As the author admits in the preface, "the meaning of this book is not universal coverage, but the choice of the heart, not the sequence of history, but the momentariness of friendship and love."
It is impossible not to feel such bias, not to be imbued with it. The images of writers are born not only from the testimonies of contemporaries, but also from their own quotes. Phrases put into the mouths of literary heroes, and autobiographical confessions become a vivid characteristic of the authors.
What unites them? A passionate love of the word, a painful need for creativity. All of them, regardless of time and circumstances, are “Russian literature in its movement and aspiration, in its passion and pain, in its desire to understand the world.”
“Russian prose is alive, and its creators are alive in that obvious and subtle world that neighbors ours.”
The book has 19 chapters, each of which is dedicated to one of the famous or forgotten writers. Here are portraits of the famous Gogol, Turgenev, Olesha, Trifonov, and the half-forgotten Savin, and the little-known Serge. Such different writers, such different eras... As the author admits in the preface, "the meaning of this book is not universal coverage, but the choice of the heart, not the sequence of history, but the momentariness of friendship and love."
It is impossible not to feel such bias, not to be imbued with it. The images of writers are born not only from the testimonies of contemporaries, but also from their own quotes. Phrases put into the mouths of literary heroes, and autobiographical confessions become a vivid characteristic of the authors.
What unites them? A passionate love of the word, a painful need for creativity. All of them, regardless of time and circumstances, are “Russian literature in its movement and aspiration, in its passion and pain, in its desire to understand the world.”
“Russian prose is alive, and its creators are alive in that obvious and subtle world that neighbors ours.”
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