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Seven Lives: Almost Everything Can Be Taken from an Individual, But His or Her Story - Softcover

Azarov, Vladimir

 
9781550963915: Seven Lives: Almost Everything Can Be Taken from an Individual, But His or Her Story

Synopsis

Vladimir Azarov grew up and came to maturity during a time in the Soviet Union when penal camps and the secret police were ubiquitous, but the one great truth that he and the world learned from all the great Russian writers, and that he learned in his own life in political exile, is that almost everything can be taken from an individual but his or her story, his or her undying and unyielding sense of self.

No matter what, the self perseveres, even in the most perverse and punishing circumstances. Azarov, in his own plainspoken voice, has composed seven stories about seven lives that are marvellously moving in their seeming simplicity, their actual depth. Seven Lives is Vladimir Azarov’s childhood experiences of Soviet life transformed into a poetic witnessing.

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About the Author

Vladimir Azarov is an architect, a poet, and a translator. He is the author of the memoir Mongolian Études, and his poetry collections include Dinner with Catherine the Great, Imitation, The Kiss from Mary Pickford: Cinematic Poems, Night Out, Of Life & Other Small Sacrifices, and Voices in Dialogue: Dramatic Poems. He lives in Toronto, USA.

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