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During the war, a colonel received a letter from his wife. She missed him very much, it said, and would he please come visit because she’s worried she will die without having seen him. The colonel immediately applied for leave, and as it happened that just a few days earlier he’d been awarded a medal, he was granted leave for three days. ...MORE
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A young man named Oleg was left an orphan when his mother died. All he had left was his older sister, for though his father was still alive, he turned out not to be Oleg’s real father. Oleg’s real father, as he learned when he started going through his mother’s papers after her funeral so he could feel that ...MORE
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Die Reihe Songs of the Eastern Slavs ist eigentlich eine Art literarische Täuschung. Mérimée brachte ein komplettes Buch mit dem Titel Songs of the Western Slavs/La Guzla heraus, das von der ganzen Welt (einschließlich Puschkin, der es übersetzte) als eine wortwörtliche Wiedergabe ...MORE
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Here is leaf-hair, new stubble in your snowy armpits. Your menstrual blood becomes the rusty evening light of courtyards, and each stone of the necklace I bought you so long ago is now the ultramarine Neva.
Upon the border of a canal’s chocolate green, the green hem of ...MORE
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Birds swim across the sun, which hangs from crystal trees like a ball of glass. Summer grows high within iron fences. Summer gives birth to green-clad soldiers lounging in yellow doorways. I begin to remember how much the Summer Garden’s branches remind me of a dancer’s arms. ...MORE
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Diese Geschichte basiert auf einer Reihe von Besäufnissen, an denen ich dankenswerterweise teilhaben durfte. Das war vor ein paar Jahren, als ich bei einer Autorenwerkstatt in Sankt Petersburg zu Gast war. Ich werde die Wirkung des Absinths nie vergessen und hoffe ...MORE
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