At the height of the era of rhetorical antagonism known as the Cold War, a young man, son and grandson of Russian writers, crossed the border to the West. He had never attended Soviet school and spent his childhood reading Xenophon in the fabulous seclusion of a summer enclave near Moscow, where Stalin's henchmen, like Andrei Gromyko, had their villas. Escape to freedom was an obsessive dream, as it had been his father's and grandfather's. What would he find in New York and London, when this dream came true? If ideas are born, live and have a history, this book is an autobiography of ideas. Dissecting illusion with reality, the book is a clinical post-mortem of the social organisms once known as the East and the West. It is also a ruthless glimpse of their mutual interpretation, and gradual transformation into a social hybrid with precedent.

The Gingerbread Race: A Life in the Closing World Once Called Free

NAVROZOV, Andrei

Biographies & Memoirs

Pan/Macmillan

In this collected volume of Pasternak’s poetry Andrei Navrozov seeks to transport the English-language reader into the Russian poet’s mysterious lyric universe. Both inventive and exact, the poems in Second Nature are inspired by life and scenery from the natural world. Unavailable for some time, Second Nature has been acclaimed by leading Pasternak scholars and enthusiasts.

Second Nature: Forty Six Poems

Literature & Fiction

Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich

Poetry

Peter Owen Ltd

Andrei Navrozov has described himself as a political refugee from Russia, a cultural refugee from America, and a gastronomic refugee from Britain. Yet the theme of his new book is altogether less flippant: where in the homogenizing and modernizing Europe would the hardened individualist find a last refuge? The answer to that question takes the reader on an uncompromising, occasionally eccentric but deeply personal and always entertaining travelogue with the author on his first day in Rome to his last night at the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas, and through a number of Italian cities, with sidelong glances at 70s Moscow, 80s New York, and 90s London. All of which leads him to "home" and the end of his flight from social progress: Palermo. Italy. Accompanying him to each of these destinations is the author's Phiz, the Russian photographer Gusov. His forty-eight arresting images serve to give another dimension to Navrozov's ideas, arguments, and impressions.

Italian Carousel: Scenes of Internal Exile

Italian Carousel: Scenes of Internal Exile by Andrei Navrozov, Photgraphs by Gusov

Italian Carousel, Scenes of Internal Exile

Travel

Europe

Hurtwood Press

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