Soul by and Other Stories Andrey Platonov Laurie Essig вырезки из газет с рецептами

вырезки из газет с рецептами и советами садоводу

Drawing on pioneering fieldwork

Turkmenistan

Lit up by emblematic recipes

Soul by and Other Stories Andrey Platonov Laurie Essig вырезки из газет с рецептами'For the mind, everthing is in the future' Platonov once wrote; 'for the heart, everything is in the past'. The protagonist of Soul is a young man torn between these opposing desires, sent as a kind of missionary to bring the values of modern Russia to his childhood home town in Central Asia. In this strange, haunting novella, as well as in the seven stories that accompany it, a rediscovered master of twentieth century Russian literature is shown at