Sergey Gandlevsky, one of Russia’s leading poets, knows how to turn personal experience into genuine art.
The book opens a window onto the literary life of the late USSR and today’s Russia.
A great gift for those who appreciate essayistic writing.
In the collection of short prose “Road No. 1 and Other Stories,” Sergei Gandlevsky’s notes and essays are brought together—written in different years, including brand-new texts published for the first time. The cultural and everyday baggage of a person with a poet’s view of the world is, in many ways, universal: children and books, youthful banquets and walks in the countryside, funny, touching, and tragic. But in Gandlevsky’s restrained, ironic, and exact prose, these impressions come together into a unique tapestry threaded with flashes of insight—one that is hard to put down.