Thank you! I can easily imagine Lavrushka in an orchard at midnight, helping himself to apples or plums. Something tells me, though, that he'd be too wily to get caught, unlike the ill-fated Peter Twist. ;)
I just read Dayswork--really loved it. It's a novel about research and imagination and Melville. Here's Ann Patchett and Sophie Blackall talking about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qs7g-DisFF0
Love this idea of respectful imagination and how you apply it to Tolstoy's writing. And love this meditation on Lavrushka.
Thank you! I can easily imagine Lavrushka in an orchard at midnight, helping himself to apples or plums. Something tells me, though, that he'd be too wily to get caught, unlike the ill-fated Peter Twist. ;)
huh. I'd always assumed that words like "shucks" and "darn" were just literary stand-ins for the actual words people were saying.
I just read Dayswork--really loved it. It's a novel about research and imagination and Melville. Here's Ann Patchett and Sophie Blackall talking about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qs7g-DisFF0