In the Washington Post, Sophie Pinkham writes about “Marlene Dietrich’s favorite writer, the Russian-Ukrainian-Polish-Turkish Konstantin Paustovsky, who witnessed WW1, the revolution, and the civil war but never lost his eye for the beauty of the natural world.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2023/02/10/konstantin-paustovsky-story-life/ #MarleneDietrich #KonstantinPaustovsky #russianliterature #ww1Lit

“At its best, ‘The Story of a Life’ rivals any autobiography in world literature. Its hero is imagination itself. While the Soviets professed absolute certainty regarding all important questions of life, Paustovsky detected mystery, complexity and hidden poetry everywhere.”

Gary Saul Morson raves about Douglas Smith's translation of Konstantin Paustovsky's Story of a Life in The Wall Street Journal
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-story-of-a-life-book-review-uncovering-the-glory-of-a-russian-writer-11675441910
#RussianLiterature #memoir #KonstantinPaustovsky #LitInTranslation