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Old Hunting Grounds and Other Stories by Yuri Kazakov (Paperback)
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Old Hunting Grounds and Other Stories by Yuri Kazakov (Paperback)
Series: Old Hunting Grounds and Other Stories by Yuri Kazakov - Vol, 1
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Loot Price R389
Discovery Miles 3 890
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The two volumes consist of 38 short stories and travel sketches
describing Russians and parts of the Soviet Union which up to
Kazakov's time (he died in 1982) had been almost untouched by that
country's 20th century upheavals. The majority of his settings are
the coast and forests adjoining the White Sea, peopled by hunters,
fishermen, buoy-keepers, ancient peasants, children in the most
halcyon moment of their youth, and among his memorable actors are
not excluded even an occasional soul-full dog or bear. Through the
eyes of this new array of 'Russian originals' we return to
forgotten ways of perceiving the world around us, of appreciating
the essential miracle of our surroundings, the universe extending
from the immediate and almost microscopic grain of sand or flower,
out to the infinitudes of which we are a part. The sense of the two
books is topical and universal: the degree of man's involvement in
the harmony and natural processes of the world is an essential
measure of his moral dignity. That such natural processes included
hunting, for instance, is a challenging thought in our
environmentally-ideological and conservation-focused times. In the
classic style of the Russian short story Kazakov's narratives move
at a leisurely pace and often end apparently inconclusively, but
they never fail to induce a deeply reflective mood. A few of his
tales do have an urban setting, but even those are suffused with a
pastoral quality, contributed to by the inescapable presence of the
seasonal and climactic envelopment of man's works; and too by
nature's mind-borne continuities: a suburban boy repeatedly
imagining and remembering episodes in some once-glimpsed corner of
Russia's backwoods. Such recollections, and more immediate
contemplations of nature in other stories, return and return like
sighs among the meanders of Kazakov's uncomplicated plots.
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