Golden Rose. Paustovsky K.G.

Once upon a time, the old Parisian cleaner, year after year, saved the dust that he sweeps out of jewelry workshops. Once, gathered precious grains of gold was enough for a wonderful rose - a gift for a woman that he knew as a child. This piercing story struck Paustovsky with his resemblance to writing, which also gives rise to something beautiful from the dust dust and partings, wanderings and travels, foreign people and stories.

So the “Golden Rose” begins-an unusual and not having stylistic analogues in Russian literature, a deeply original work in which autobiographical motifs are easily and naturally mixed with fiction-biographical, and essayistic-with philosophical.