Poluprozrachnyi palimpsest: rasskazy, esse i zametki [Translucent Palimpsest: st

The stories and essays of Gennady Aleksandrovich Barabtarlo (1949–2019), philologist, poet, translator and researcher of V. V. Nabokov’s work, cannot but surprise. The literary and philosophical images that they brought to life cover a huge time period from St. Augustine to Pushkin and from Plotinus to Shestov, and fresh, precise, refined language reminds the reader of the highest literary examples. This is the prose of an artist who devoted his whole life to the study of literature, and until the end of his days not only preserved the taste of his native speech, but also multiplied its gift.