Story of a Life: Slow Approach to Thunder

by Konstantin Paustovskij

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Schitterende verhalen over gewone mensen, schitterende natuurbeschrijvingen, gruwelijke oorlogsverslagen, kortom. Weer zeer de moeite waard. Dit deel gaat over wat hij doet in de Eerste Wereldoorlog. Hij is zieken en gewonden oppasser, want hij heeft broederdienst. Zijn 2 broers komen om in de oorlog. Later wordt hij journalist.
De kracht van zijn boeken is dat hij heel kleine verhalen vertelt over hele gewone, vaak arme mensen zodat ze echt voor je leven.
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In "Onrustige jeugd" gaat het levensverhaal van Konstantin Paustovski verder. Het zijn de jaren van de eerste wereldoorlog: 1914-1917. Konstantin vindt allerlei baantjes zoals tramconducteur, visser en ziekenverzorger. Het is een van de allermooiste boeken die ik ken, prachtig vertaald.

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Paustovsky's first story was published in 1912. Over the years, he developed into an extremely fine stylist and was nominated for the Nobel Prize in 1965. He wrote many tales, novels, and plays and managed to escape being totally bound by the straightjacket of socialist realism even during the Stalin era. Black Gulf (1932), for example, which show more deals with the theme of industrialization, is an adventure novel. He is especially known for his short stories, in which a sharp eye for detail combines with depictions of protagonists who escape from reality into dreams. A Story of a Life (1947--60), his reminiscences of more than 50 years, is often considered his best work and contains a great deal of interesting material. Paustovsky was very popular during the post-Stalin period and had a great impact on younger writers. In 1966 he made an appeal for the newly convicted Daniel and Andrei Sinyavsky, an action that won him widespread admiration within the Russian intelligentsia. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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Story of a Life: Slow Approach to Thunder
Original title
Беспокойная юность
Original publication date
1954; 1976 (Nederlandse vertaling) (Nederlandse vertaling)

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Biography & Memoir, General Fiction
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891.7Literature & rhetoricAsian LiteratureEast Indo-European and Celtic literaturesRussian and East Slavic languages

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