Before and During - Vladimir Sharov Kyosen Kawasaki While the world they inhabit

While the world they inhabit has faded into memory and myth

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

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

and thoughts are exchanged

” and “the technosphere: man/machine symbiosis

Before and During - Vladimir Sharov Kyosen Kawasaki While the world they inhabitBefore 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