Moscow, March 18, 2015
He would have been 78 on Saturday but instead the world of Russian literature is mourning the loss of Valentin Rasputin, who has died after falling into a coma in hospital.
From faraway Irkutsk he came from a peasant family and established a “village voice” in Russian literature with works like Farewell to Matyora”, “French Lessons”, “Deadline”, “Live and Remember” and many others.
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An Excerpt from the Introduction to The Boundless Garden: Selected Short Stories, Volume I
Lambros Kamperidis
An Excerpt from the Introduction to The Boundless Garden: Selected Short Stories, Volume I
The short stories of Alexandros Papadiamandis are graced with an almost indefinable quality common to all great writers. This quality would seem to derive from an enthralment combined with a certain perplexity, an irresistible pull exerted by the author's descriptions of a world of beauty and marvels which at the same time is filled with predicaments, human tragedies and humble triumphs.
Archbishop Antony of Borispol: A priest should know the works of great authors and poets.
Olga Bogdanovaspoke, Archbishop Antony (Pakanich)
Archbishop Antony of Borispol: A priest should know the works of great authors and poets.
We are living in very complex times, when people are losing their moral points of reference. Those values and ideals that were inculcated in us through quality literature and poetry are now being replaced with the fetishes of the entertainment industry. Nowadays it is simply horrifying to see how the country that gave the world Pushkin, Gogol, and Dostoevsky is turning into a society of glamour rags and pop.
Revealing secret lives of saints in Russia's Orthodox literature
Revealing secret lives of saints in Russia's Orthodox literature
One of the most popular books among Russian readers right now could be considered a modern version of The Lives of the Saints, Everyday Saints, a book about the lives of monks and priests written by a monk is sitting on the Russian bestseller lists and selling out its print runs.
