Before and During - Vladimir Sharov Kyosen Kawasaki An all-time favorite (in the

An all-time favorite (in the translation I've read over and over)

1934–1944 gathers together an assortment of anxious dream tales drawn from literary journals and plaquettes

Herbert Rosendorfer was born in Germany in 1934

and thoughts are exchanged

Before and During - Vladimir Sharov Kyosen Kawasaki An all-time favorite (in theBefore and During by Vladimir Sharov, translated by Oliver Ready ISBN 9781907650710 348 page paperback from Dedalus European Classics *** Set in a psychiatric clinic in Moscow in the long decades of late Soviet stagnation, Before and During sweeps the reader away from its dismal surroundings on a series of fantastical excursions into the Russian past. We meet Leo Tolstoy's twin brother, eaten by the great writer in his mother's womb, only to be born