《发现》是二十世纪俄罗斯最受赞誉的遗失经典之一，现在已被重新翻译。
“杰出……一项闪耀的、极其珍贵的文学成就”
“这是一部伟大的俄罗斯自传，在它被写出来的那一天，在它被活生生的那一天，它现在依然新鲜。”
1943年，苏联最受尊敬的作家康斯坦丁·波斯托夫斯基（Konstantin Paustovsky）开始了他的杰作——《生命的故事》；一本宏大的小说回忆录讲述了一个生活在俄罗斯历史上迅速展开的前沿的人。这本书最终出版了六卷，巩固了波斯托夫斯基作为全世界俄罗斯之声的声誉，并获得了诺贝尔文学奖提名。
古根海姆的道格拉斯·史密斯（Douglas Smith）是古根海姆（Guggenheim）的同僚，他最新翻译了《古典经典》（Vintage Classics），很荣幸能为新一代重新介绍波斯托夫斯基史诗的前三本书。读者可以从波斯托夫斯基笔下的乌克兰青年，与一个濒临崩溃的家庭和第一次蓬勃发展的创作雄心作斗争，到他在俄罗斯前线担任护理人员的经历，再到他作为一名记者报道该国暴力螺旋式革命的经历，这部人生故事描绘了一段前所未有的艺术之旅。
《生活的故事》与19世纪和20世纪伟大的俄罗斯小说一样富于戏剧性，但更为有力的是，它直接证明了历史上最混乱的时代之一，《生活的故事》是现代文学的一个独特的耀眼成就。
The Story of a Life, Volumes 1–3
Discoverone of Twentieth-Century Russia’s most lauded lost classics, now in a remarakble new translation.
‘Outstanding… A sparkling, supremely precious literary achievement’ Telegraph
‘One of the great Russian autobiographies, as fresh now as the day it was written – and the day it was lived’ Julian Barnes
In 1943, Konstantin Paustovsky, the Soviet Union’s 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 Paustovsky’s 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 Paustovsky’s epic for a whole new generation. Taking its reader from Paustovsky’s 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 Russia’s frontlines and then as a journalist covering the country’s violent spiral into revolution, TheStory 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 history’s most chaotic eras, The Story of Life is a uniquely dazzling achievement of modern literature.
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