Before and During - Vladimir Sharov Kyosen Kawasaki It has altered the way

It has altered the way I understand my own life

"Rufus: The Bat Who Loved Colors (just reissued by Phaidon) has been flapping around winning hearts since it was first published in 1961

While the world they inhabit has faded into memory and myth

they created a distinctively Dutch design culture that remains vital in the twenty-first century

as well as interpretation from alchemical experts Stephen Skinner and Georgiana Hedesan

Before and During - Vladimir Sharov Kyosen Kawasaki It has altered the wayBefore and During by Vladimir Sharov, translated by Oliver Ready ISBN 9781907650710 348 page paperback from Dedalus European Classics *** Set in a psychiatric clinic in Moscow in the long decades of late Soviet stagnation, Before and During sweeps the reader away from its dismal surroundings on a series of fantastical excursions into the Russian past. We meet Leo Tolstoy's twin brother, eaten by the great writer in his mother's womb, only to be born