The name of the memoirs of Olya Vatovi – the widow of the famous Polish writer, poet, translator, one of the creators of Polish futurism by Alexander Vata – are the words from which the book begins: “All the most important in my life is connected with Alexander.” The memories of Olya Vatova are a piercing tragic love story against the backdrop of the terrible, bloody events of the twentieth century. Poland of the 1930s and meetings with Vladimir Mayakovsky, the flight to Lviv, the provocation and arrest of the NKVD, war, a link to Kazakhstan, moving to Alma-Ata, abandoning Soviet citizenship, torture. Anti -Semitism and cruelty of some and at the same time unexpected help and kindness of others. But the main thing is love. Even when it seems that everything is lost, that there is no salvation, it is love that inspires power to Olya Vatov – a woman who was able to overpower everything and withstand. “All that I had to endure is my life experience. Only over time do you understand how great its meaning is.”
Olya Vatovi memoirs were published all over the world, and in 1992 the film “Armed Forces …
Author
Vatova Olga
Translator
Gillon Liora
Publisher
Corpus, 2014
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