Yes- I read about a third and found it interesting but got distracted by something else. So much to read! Am currently reading a biography of George Moore which is very good but just so heavy that I need a lectern!!!
Translated by Sasha Dugdale
“And you see only those who stand in the light.
While those in the darkness nobody can see.”
Bertold Brecht
This extraordinary book, like its subject matter, is difficult to pin down. A blend of philosophy, travelogue, memoir, cultural criticism and group biography, it is book 3 of my 20 books of summer – I’m at various stages with several others – and has been short-listed for various prizes, including the International Man Booker (though it is not really fiction, or only in the very faintest of senses) and the James Tait Black prize for biography. Published by the always interesting indie Fitzcarraldo, and beautifully produced as ever, it opens with the death of an aunt, and a discussion of the detritus accumulated over a lifetime: photos, books, old clothes.
Stepanova (a renowned Russian poet and journalist, and editor of the temporarily silenced online journal
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