Khersonsky B. Odessa Intelligentsia Book

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Boris Khersonsky, one of the leading Russian-speaking poets of Ukraine, winner of numerous international awards, in recent years has been writing not only in Russian but also in Ukrainian and translating his Russian-language poems into Ukrainian. 

His new book includes fragments of surreal memoirs about the pearl by the Black Sea - Odessa and the author's mad love for the Odessa Intellectuals - as he says, a lady, prone to fullness of body and feelings, sincerely loving sandwiches with Black Sea tulka and sheep's brynza. The reader will also get acquainted with the Odessa Farce, Major Valerievich and many other characters that inhabit the dreams and delirium of a man mad with love; stand on the edge of a huge Evrokotlovan on the central square of the city, will visit a meeting of the City Club basement and even for questioning in the corner of Babel and Bebel streets, from the roof of which opened a beautiful view of Magadan. The author calls himself a chronic patient of the Third Department of the Odessa Psychiatric Hospital, he does not take off his dressy straitjacket and is always confused. 

The second part of the book, "Bad Neighborhood". - collected poems dedicated to Odessa, - and new, and those that were written over the past fifteen years, and partly published in the previously published books of the poet and the periodical press. Much of these poems as if tracing the history of the city, from its foundation to the present time, not the easiest for him. Moldavanka, the Old Window Market, the Seaside Boulevard, the Opera and Ballet Theatre, the beaches - all of these traditional for "Odessa lyrics" places are present in the poems of Boris Khersonsky together with the inhabitants of the city - both those who left it, and living in it and living through the rapid changes of its appearance. 

Number of pages: 448