Time of big expectations. Story. Diaries. Letters. In 2 volumes: Konstantin Paustovsky

The first volumes of the works of Konstantin Georgievich Paustovsky included the novels “Time of Great Expectations” and “Throw to the South” from the cycle “The Tale of Life”. In the story “Time of Great Expectations”, an unforgettable image of Odessa 1920-1921, the legendary Odessa of countless songs, jokes and great literature is remarkable. The bandits from the Moldovan have not yet turned into book heroes, the sea blockade still lasts, but Odessa – she is always Odessa! “Throw to the South” leads K. Paustovsky to the “three -worship of the Caucasus.” Patriarchal Abkhazia, Batum of the Porto-Franco era, fantastic Tiflis of artists and poets …
The novels are accompanied by unknown reader with the diary records of Paustovsky and letters to people who have become the prototypes of the heroes of his works.
The son of the writer, Vadim Konstantinovich Paustovsky, wrote a number of articles for this publication, resulting in his studies of his father’s work. The book is illustrated by unique, little-known photographs from the Foundation of the Moscow Literary Museum …

Author
Paustovsky Konstantin Georgievich
Publisher
Decum, 2002
Series
Names
Genre
Memoirs, essays, letters, essays