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The Two Richards (Paperback)
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The Two Richards (Paperback)
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Loot Price R548
Discovery Miles 5 480
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Vladimir Azarov was a child of the Soviet Kazakhstan steppes. When
his mother discovered that he had a slight curvature of the spine,
with her own loving humor she nicknamed him Richie, after Richard
III, the 14th century English king, himself crooked, made famous as
a monster by Shakespeare. At the same time Azarov suffered a
vision-altering wound to his eye that transformed the way he
perceived the world, both real and imagined. The wound eventually
healed and, as he grew up feeling a wry kinship to the king, his
bent eye became that of a visionary, of an artist who was a
convention-breaking architect, and finally as a poet, not writing
in Russian, but in the King's English. When, not long ago, the
actual bones of Richard III were found under a parking lot in
Leicester town, Azarov - now in his 80s living in Toronto, and
remembering his kinship by name - envisioned the archeological dig
and re-interment of the bones, and he became one in his mind with
the reputation-renovated and redeemed king. He became, at last,
Richie-Richard III, being sung to on a rainy day, over a new grave,
by medieval knights.
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