The Story of a Life Paustovsky, Konstantin Grodzisk Mazowiecki

Discover one of Twentieth-Century Russias most lauded lost classics, now in a remarkable new translation. Outstanding... A sparkling, supremely precious literary achievement TelegraphOne of the great Russian autobiographies, as fresh now as the day it was written - and the day it was lived Julian BarnesIn 1943, Konstantin Paustovsky, the Soviet Unions 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.Eventually published over six volumes, it would cement Paustovskys reputation as the voice of Russia around the world, and see him nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Newly translated by Guggenheim fellow Douglas Smith, Vintage Classics are proud to reintroduce the first three books of Paustovskys epic for a whole new generation. Taking its reader from Paustovskys Ukrainian youth, struggling with a family on the verge of collapse and the first flourishes of creative ambition, to his experiences working as a paramedic on Russias frontlines and then as a journalist covering the countrys violent spiral into revolution, The Story of a Life offers a portrait of an artistic journey like no other.As richly dramatic as the great Russian novels of the 19th and 20th centuries, but all the more powerful for its first-hand testament to one of historys most chaotic eras, The Story of Life is a uniquely dazzling achievement of modern literature.