Before and During - Vladimir Sharov Kyosen Kawasaki "Rufus: The Bat Who Loved

"Rufus: The Bat Who Loved Colors (just reissued by Phaidon) has been flapping around winning hearts since it was first published in 1961

” and “the technosphere: man/machine symbiosis

1934–1944 gathers together an assortment of anxious dream tales drawn from literary journals and plaquettes

and thoughts are exchanged

An all-time favorite (in the translation I've read over and over)

Before and During - Vladimir Sharov Kyosen Kawasaki "Rufus: The Bat Who LovedBefore and During by Vladimir Sharov, translated by Oliver Ready ISBN 9781907650710 348 page paperback from Dedalus European Classics *** Set in a psychiatric clinic in Moscow in the long decades of late Soviet stagnation, Before and During sweeps the reader away from its dismal surroundings on a series of fantastical excursions into the Russian past. We meet Leo Tolstoy's twin brother, eaten by the great writer in his mother's womb, only to be born