To See Paris and Die!

19 hrs. 37 min.

Romance & Prose

Language Russian

Author Mikhail Chvanov

Narrator Andrey Leonov

Description

Mikhail Chvanov became known to a broad circle of readers in the early 1970s, especially thanks to the story “A Ticket to Childhood.” As often happens with truly talented, outstanding works, it was initially rejected by literary magazines, and later people would write that “it—shocking in its depth and artistic expressiveness—entered the collection of the best works of Russian literature.”

It’s no coincidence that at one time Mikhail Ivanov was supported by another writer, also initially rejected by Soviet critics and later world-famous—Vasily Bykov: “Your talent is very deep. Try to use it in a worthy way… Don’t believe there are all kinds of… Better listen to yourself—your talent will guide you…”

“To me, a real discovery—one that made me admire and bow my head before a true enthusiast of culture and a sane thinker—was my introduction, by correspondence, with Mikhail Andreevich Ivanov,” wrote the uncompromising fighter for Russian culture, a well-known restorer and art historian S.V. Yamshchikov. “Literary works coming from Ivanov’s pen fit naturally into the richest treasury of modern Russian literary creativity and hold up in comparisons with the classic works of Rasputin, Astafyev, Abramov, and Nosov…”

The book “To See Paris and—To Die” is included in the two-volume edition “Collected Works” by Mikhail Ivanov (vol. 1).