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Our 10 favourite books of 2019 will change how you see the world
Literature Review Hungary Belarus Croatia Georgia Russia Ukraine Uzbekistan Culture From a different account of war by Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich, to TS Eliot prize-winning poetry, here is a selection of the best books from the New East this year.
Poetic portraits: Russian poem translated by Robert Chandler and introduced by Marina Boroditskaya
Russian poet Marina Boroditskaya introduces a Lev Ozerov poem, never published before in English, about comic writer Mikhail Zoshchenko, a man once denounced as an enemy of Soviet literature LEV OZEROV’S BOOK of poems Portraits Without Frames, it seems to me, has no counterpart in Russian poetry. The author concocted such an inimitable mixture of the lyric and the epic that the very matter-of-factness of his tone makes me want to cry.
LRB · Lev Ozerov translated by Boris Dralyuk · Poem: ‘Viktor Borisovich Shklovsky’
When he enters your flat, he makes his presence felt – spinning on his axis, smiling and pert, a smile on his lips, a smile on the back of his head! He offers you his hand – his surprisingly soft hand, which pulls yours down like an old doorbell on a string. No one recalls those doorbells nowadays. Softness and sharpness. The corner of a sphere. He surveys the flat. Words tremble on his lips. He’s in no rush to get them out – they might offend. Finally, they break free: ‘You no longer have a bed.
The Flight of the Creative Class
Dear Mayor Billings: Provo needs a premier literary magazine. In order to succeed in the twenty-first century and flourish economically, cities today must attract and retain the vital group of individuals that experts call “cultural creatives.” Only by doing so can cities build a foundation for the high-tech industries and cutting-edge innovations that will dominate the future.
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