The Life Of An Unknown Man
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The Life of an Unknown Man
A deeply moving meditation on memory, history, love, and art by the author of Dreams of My Russian Summers In The Life of an Unknown Man, Andreï Makine explores what truly matters in life through the prism of Russia's past and present. Shutov, a disenchanted writer, revisits St. Petersburg after twenty years of exile in Paris, hoping to recapture his youth. Instead, he meets Volsky, an old man who tells him his extraordinary story: of surviving the siege of Leningrad, the march on Berlin, and Stalin's purges, and of a transcendent love affair. Volsky's life is an inspiration to Shutov -- because for all that he suffered, he knew great happiness. This depth of feeling stands in sharp contrast to the empty lives Shutov encounters in the new Russia, and to his own life, that of just another unknown man . . .
THE UNKNOWN MAN
This is a collection of alluring tales on the sidelines of my corporate and social life. The incredible range of personalities that I came across and the exciting anecdotes at exotic locations far and wide were the backdrop to conjure my thoughts. Surely, there was a side-story at every turn in the corporate and social life. I strongly feel those are the tales that are worth telling. These accounts allude to bundles of emotions; like, unexpected acts of kindness, unadulterated adolescent escapades, fun and frolic, self-pity at lack of deftness at times, my hits and misses, and plenty of other sentiments rolled into separate stories. By packing all these anecdotes in The Unknown Man, what I have attempted is to relive these emotions, all at once. I am putting them forward to you, with the confidence that you will enjoy reading them, feel entertained and worth your time.
Portrait of an Unknown Man
Author: Cipriano de Rivas Cherif
language: en
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Release Date: 1995
"Paul Stewart's translation of Portrait of an Unknown Man, Cipriano de Rivas Cherif's biography of his brother-in-law and friend, introduces to English-speaking readers Manuel Azana, Spain's wartime president whom the Franco regime had treated as a nonperson." "Considered the symbol of the Second Republic in Spain, Azana was the subject of a flood of books and articles in 1990, the fiftieth anniversary of his death. The Spanish Ministry of Culture sponsored a major exhibition honoring Azana as author and statesman, while symposia dedicated to him were held in Barcelona and Montauban, France, where he died after finding uneasy refuge from Franco's armies and Hitler's Gestapo." "The biography also clarifies the complex politics of Spain in the twenties and thirties by focusing on this preeminent politician of that era, and it achieves depth in its portrait by painting the background of three generations of a bourgeois family caught up in dramatically changing times."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved