Glas 25: Stories from My Life Dim and Distant Days (Glass Innactive Series) - Softcover
Larissa Miller's memoir recounts her childhood in postwar Moscow.
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About the Author:
Born in 1940 Larissa Miller was educated at the Foreign Languages Institute in Moscow and later taught at Moscow University. A major lyrical poet, she is the author of ten books, including Nameless Day; My Land and Home; Let's Talk about the Paradoxes of Love; Holidays, Holidays; Between the Cloud and the Pit.
Winner of several literary prizes she was short-listed for the State Prize in 2000.
In Dim and Distant Days, Miller looks back over nearly five decades of Soviet history to her hungry but happy childhood in post-war Moscow; her coming of age as a Jewish girl in an anti-Semitic regime; her early loves and her student days; her encounters with the KGB as an English interpreter in the 1960s and again in the 1980s as the wife of human rights activist Boris Altschuler.
Miller's striking personality shines through her narrative. She radiates kindness and wisdom, seemingly fragile and vulnerable she is able to resist all ideological influences, remaining completely independent-minded and vibrantly alive.
Review:
Winner of several literary prizes she was short-listed for the State Prize in 2000.
In Dim and Distant Days, Miller looks back over nearly five decades of Soviet history to her hungry but happy childhood in post-war Moscow; her coming of age as a Jewish girl in an anti-Semitic regime; her early loves and her student days; her encounters with the KGB as an English interpreter in the 1960s and again in the 1980s as the wife of human rights activist Boris Altschuler.
Miller's striking personality shines through her narrative. She radiates kindness and wisdom, seemingly fragile and vulnerable she is able to resist all ideological influences, remaining completely independent-minded and vibrantly alive.
Russia remains a country of distinguished writers, and Glas, provides a welcome overview of the current state of Russian literary affairs. (Montreal Gazette )
If you can't find Glas in the shops, ask for it. This journal deserves wide distribution. (The Irish Times )
Nobody who purports to be interested in Russian literature should be without Glas. (Moscow Times )
Glas is first rate...well planned and well translated. Anyone interested in Russia and good writing should seek it out. (London Observer )
The writing in Glas offers startling evidence that the great Russian literary tradition lives on. (American Bookseller )
Glas has become almost disturbingly indispensable. The texts and voices out of Russia come through with formidable insistence. (George Steiner )
If you can't find Glas in the shops, ask for it. This journal deserves wide distribution. (The Irish Times )
Nobody who purports to be interested in Russian literature should be without Glas. (Moscow Times )
Glas is first rate...well planned and well translated. Anyone interested in Russia and good writing should seek it out. (London Observer )
The writing in Glas offers startling evidence that the great Russian literary tradition lives on. (American Bookseller )
Glas has become almost disturbingly indispensable. The texts and voices out of Russia come through with formidable insistence. (George Steiner )
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- PublisherGlas
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 1566633389
- ISBN 13 9781566633383
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages112
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