From the lantern. Gandelsman V.

“All creativity is the culmination of the dizzying horror of death. But they, according to Newton's third law, are a desperate thirst for self -affirmation and life. ” “I know my lights by heart. Perhaps they would have passed them blindly. And not only. I know almost certainly which does not burn today, and which begins to prevent it from warning. ” The episodes of the biography and fragments of the surrounding world, seen through the subtle poetic lens, are fastened in the novel by Vladimir Gandelsman in the central way of the lamps, which should be followed by a hero, similar to a compulsory lantern from the “little prince”. Saving a literal, physical light, he also carefully stores outbreaks of memories of loved ones and flashes of his own creative life. The second part of the book was commented on the poems of Vladimir Gandelsman, written by his cousin Alexander. In these notes, the history of the lyrical hero of the poetry of Vladimir, told from a position extremely close to the author, is unfolding biographically and metaphysically.

Vladimir Gandelsman - poet and translator, laureate of the Moscow Account Prize (2011).