The joy of creativity

The outstanding Russian writer Konstantin Georgievich Paustovsky (1892–1968) throughout his life retained a keen interest in the mystery of creativity - both in literature and in the field of fine art. He asked how the painters see the world and write it, watched how even in the Soviet realities “holy craft” completely, without a trace captures colleague literature and determines their biographies ...
The collection includes several small stories about artists (Kiprensky, Levitan, Van Gogh, Pirosmani), articles about the legacy of Pushkin, Chekhov, Bunin, memories of meetings with wonderful contemporary writers (Gorky, Bulgakov, Simonov and many others) as well as notes, thoughts K.G. Paustovsky about various aspects of literary creativity