A Large Czeslaw Milosz With a Dash of Elvis Presley - Softcover

Skarynkina, Tania

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1910895229 ISBN 13: 9781910895221

Publisher: Scotland Street Press, 2018

Synopsis

Tania Skarynkina's stories mix life in a small Belarusian town with thoughts on world literature. She has an external naivety of the imagination that creates an Eastern Bloc magic realism. Sitting by her window with a glass of cranberries in sugar syrup bought from a woman in the market who assured her they came from Karelia, she muses "Perhaps they have some other kind of effect when you eat them. Spiritual maybe? So I eat and wait for the Karelian cranberries to work their magic on me." Skarynkina is impelled to spend the last of her money on a trip to Krakow to meet Czeslaw Milosz but never finds his address, so he remains to her an idol like Elvis Presley dressed in gold lame. Each story has a charm and imaginative flight of its own.

About this title

About the Author:

Tania Skarynkina, poet and essayist, was born in 1969 in Smarhon, Belarus. This book of literary essays was published in 2015 and includes recollections of her childhood in Smarhon interwoven with thoughts on poets, philosophers and world literature as a whole. Jim Dingley, who has a lifetime's experience of translating Belarusian into English, is currently working on this project with Scotland Street Press.

About this edition

• Publisher: Scotland Street Press
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1910895229
• ISBN 13: 9781910895221
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208