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The House and the Island, or The Instrument of Language

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The House and the Island, or The Instrument of Language
14.99 €
Evgeny Vodolazkin (b. 1964) is a philologist, author of works on Old Russian literature and... prose writer, author of the novels "Lavr" (Big Book and Yasnaya Polyana awards), "Solovyov and Larionov" and "Aviator" (Big Book award). The reaction of philologists to a fellow writer is often akin to the reaction of doctors to a colleague who has fallen ill: he had just stood at the operating table and - please - is already lying down. And yet, "to be an ichthyologist and a fish at the same time" is not only acceptable, but also useful, which proves the book "House and Island, or Tool of Language". Short witty sketches from the life of scientists, memories of people close to the author, essays and sketches - something from Pushkin's "table-talk" and Yuri Olesha's notes - remind us that the boundary between man and text is not as strong as it may sometimes seem.
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