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My diamond crown

4.99 €
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My diamond crown
4.99 €
This is no ordinary novel... A mystery novel, a flight of fantasy, a "magic crystal of memory"... Unique, original, and innovative for its time—it fuses the lyrical and the autobiographical.

In his novel "My Diamond Crown," Valentin Kataev describes specific facts from his personal life and recreates a panorama of literary (and other!) life in Russia in the 1920s and early 1930s. Extracting characters, one by one, from the "mysterious convolutions of the imagination," Valentin Petrovich "avoids real names." He gives each "character"—including Vladimir Mayakovsky, Yuri Olesha, Sergei Yesenin, Mikhail Zoshchenko, Boris Pasternak, Mikhail Bulgakov, Osip Mandelstam, Yevgeny Petrov, and many others—nicknames, describes their appearance and character, and recites poems from memory, giving readers the opportunity to solve the riddles themselves.
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