Gold of dreams. The cultural blessing and cursed metal

“Gold of dreams” is the final part of the Ralph Dutley trilogy, which includes “marvelous olive” and “song about honey” (both - Ivan Lumbach Publishing House, 2019) Starting his story with how gold hit the ground as a result of a clash of neutron stars, the author traces the history of his interaction with a person in different eras, at different continents. Not limited to its material aspect, Dutley writes about what a trace this story left in culture, recalls ancient myths, folk tales, classical and modern works of literature, music and fine art. The book is completed by a small anthology of “gold of poems”.
Ralph Dutley (b. 1954) - Swiss philologist, poet, translator, author of the biography of Osip Mandelstam, who prepared the complete works of the poet in German for the publication. He also translated the works of Marina Tsvetaeva, Joseph Brodsky