Tag: The Bookshelf
The Bookshelf: Istanbul
The biggest impression of those first days was the sight of the open sea. For a day and two nights, .....
The Bookshelf: The Aroma of Odessa
Babel is one of the great masters of the short story, and for the translator a great and challenging master .....
The Bookkshelf: The Cossak
The story “Cossack” was written by Chekhov in the first days of his stay in Taganrog on April 7, 1887. .....
The Bookshelf: Odessa
Babel’s prose does not merely draw on past themes and forms, but is the forging of a new manner of .....
The Bookshelf: The Doctor
This story is very vital and relevant. Nothing in life can be worse than burying your children. Here, too, Anton .....
The Bookshelf: Lightning
Konstantin Paustovsky was born in Moscow, he spent his childhood and youth in Kyev, was living in Odessa and working .....
The Bookshelf: Elya Isaakovich and Margarita Prokofievna
Consonant with Babel’s background and milieu, his early stories explored the gritty middle-class world of a modern Russian city whose .....
The Bookshelf: Mari d’elle
Odessa is reflected both in Anton Chekhov’s letters and in the memories of people who later became his friends. This .....
