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Konstantin Georgiyevich Paustovsky (Russian: Константи́н Гео́ргиевич Паусто́вский, pronounced [pəʊˈstofskʲɪj]; 31 May [O.S. 19 May] 1892 – 14 July 1968) was a Soviet writer nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1965.
Mar 9, 2022 · Biography and memoir. Konstantin Paustovsky: the great Russian novelist who never won the Nobel. A new translation of his epic The Story of a Life charts the rise of Bolshevism and events that...
May 27, 2024 · Konstantin Georgiyevich Paustovsky (born May 31 [May 19, Old Style], 1892, Moscow, Russia—died July 14, 1968, Moscow) was a Soviet fiction writer best known for his short stories, which carried the pre-Revolutionary romantic tradition into the Soviet period.
Feb 10, 2023 · One of the best of these was Konstantin Paustovsky, whose magnum opus, the autobiographical “The Story of a Life,” has now been reissued in a fine new translation by historian Douglas...
Feb 3, 2023 · Konstantin Paustovsky marveled at the wonders of everyday life, even in the middle of the Soviet Union’s bloody and tumultuous birth.
The Soviet writer Konstantin Paustovsky’s six-volume autobiography The Story of a Life combines high drama with heroic misadventure in a comico-lyrical amalgam of history and...
In 1943, Konstantin Paustovsky, the Soviet Union's most revered author, started out on his masterwork - The Story of a Life; a grand, novelistic memoir of a life lived on the fast-unfurling frontiers of Russian history.
