When the Hogarth Press published Gorky's book of apercus in 1920, it could hardly have been to greater acclaim: according to Leonard Woolf, 'it makes one hear, see, feel Tolstoy... as if one... read more
Born in Russia, Poplavsky fled to Paris in the Revolution, where he become a literary and artistic enfant terrible of the emigré circles of Montparnasse. This novel, translated into English... read more