New York

Do you remember how Vladimir Gilyarovsky’s book “Moscow and Muscovites” begins? “I am a Muscovite! How happy is the one who can say it—putting his whole self into that word. I am a Muscovite!” The collection of essays “New York” by Theodore Dreiser could very well have a similar opening: “I am a New Yorker! …” And even if this city wasn’t native to the famous American writer, that gives him no reason not to call himself that—how much love and attention to the smallest details he uses to describe the life of the metropolis and its residents! I am a New Yorker!