On both sides. Sketches
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Scandinavist, literary critic and translator, Elena Balzamo was born and raised in Moscow in Soviet times, but has been living and working in France for a long time. And now from the "side", from the "this" of time, she looks back at the" era, at her own childhood, study, growing up-and gradual rejection from the system, which ended with the move to another, “so-land” world. The removal, alienation paradoxically allows the author to approach the past, understand and resurrect the past era, passing it through the prism of memories, family traditions and letters. This is a story about the fate of three generations: what made the revolution and then paid for decades for what was done, that, whether it was innocent or continuing the work of the parents, paid, if not for its own, then for their sins, and to which it was to see Other times". By temporary length, it covers the entire twentieth century, unfolding in space from Moscow to Paris, from the Baltic states to the Caucasus, space, the autumn shadow of Solovki, Siberian camps, Central Asian links
Author:
Author:Бальзамо Е.
Cover:
Cover:Hard
Category:
- Category:Fiction
- Category:Modern Literature
Paper:
Paper:White
ISBN:
ISBN:978-5-4448-0626-5
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