The Story of a Life

Volumes 1-3

The Story of a Life
Konstantin Paustovsky
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Hardback
h242 x 162mm - 816pg
20 Jan 2022 UK
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9781784873080
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A new remarkable new translation of one of Twentieth-Century Russia' s most lauded lost classicsIn 1943, the Soviet Union' s most revered author, Konstantin Paustovsky, started out on his masterwork - The Story of a Life; a grand, sprawling memoir of a life lived on the fast-unfurling frontiers of Russian history. Originally published in six volumes, it would cement Paustovsky' s reputation as the voice of Russia around the world, and see him nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Newly translated by Guggenheim fellow Douglas Smith, Vintage Classics are proud to reintroduce the first three volumes of Paustovsky' s epic for a whole new generation. Taking its reader from Paustovsky' s Ukrainian childhood and youth, struggling with a family on the verge of collapse and first flourishes of creative ambition, to his experiences as a paramedic on Russia' s frontlines, and then as a journalist aspiring to cover the country' s many revolutions, The Story of a Life not only offers the portrait of an artistic life like no other, but opens a window into the turmoil of one of modern history' s most chaotic moments.
A work of astonishing beauty . . . a masterpiece -- Isaac Bashevis Singer A literary masterpiece. . . . This is not the cracker-barrel blandness of some professional sage, as so often in America' s ghost-written memoirs, but a wisdom of tragic insight and of hard-earned integrity * Saturday Review * An older man, a survivor, and a witness, Paustovsky writes against time, to tell the young what the past was like. . . His work is nothing like an elegy, nor is it as routine as a backward glance at the good or bad old days. It is, rather, a series of sketches, stories, novellas, in which vanished people (including the author' s young self) are present again - as they once walked in a park, or smiled, or wept - and made anew in man' s most endurable medium, language * New Yorker *
Konstantin Paustovsky was born in Moscow in 1892, but spent his childhood in Ukraine, being schooled at Kiev' s First Gymnasium. After serving as a paramedic in World War I Paustovsky worked as a journalist until he began to write the novels, short story collections and critical essays that would earn him his place as the most admired and respected figure among Russia' s contemporary writers. Paustovsky began work on his autobiography, The Story of a Life, in 1943, parts of which first appeared in English translation in 1964-four years before he died.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9781784873080
Published: 20 Jan 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Vintage Classics
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Format: Hardback
Height: 242mm
Width: 162mm
Spine: 48mm
Weight: 1333g
Pages: 816

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