"He wrote romantically, but simply, without embellishment...In his descriptions, he resembles Hamsun. He is the best Russian writer I know," Marlene Dietrich said of Konstantin Paustovsky's work. He is called a romantic poet in prose, so vivid and psychological are the images of his works. Paustovsky is known all over the world, he was nominated for the Nobel Prize three times, his books have been translated into many languages. Konstantin Paustovsky witnessed the events of the first half of the twentieth century: he worked as an orderly during World War I, was a correspondent in Moscow during the October Revolution, traveled a lot around Russia after the revolution, collecting observations and stories for future books, was a war correspondent during the Great Patriotic War and also traveled many places. Paustovsky directed all the power of his imagination to see the extraordinary in the ordinary. With the help of carefully and reliably described details of real life, he showed the reader the magic and poetry of it itself, and not some parallel reality. Nature and art were his main sources of inspiration, as the most harmonious thing in the world. Introductory article by Konstantin Paustovsky. The photographic materials are provided by the Moscow Literary Museum-K.G. Paustovsky Center.
"He wrote romantically, but simply, without embellishment...In his descriptions, he resembles Hamsun. He is the best Russian writer I know," Marlene Dietrich said of Konstantin Paustovsky's work. He is called a romantic poet in prose, so vivid and psychological are the images of his works. Paustovsky is known all over the world, he was nominated for the Nobel Prize three times, his books have been translated into many languages. Konstantin Paustovsky witnessed the events of the first half of the twentieth century: he worked as an orderly during World War I, was a correspondent in Moscow during the October Revolution, traveled a lot around Russia after the revolution, collecting observations and stories for future books, was a war correspondent during the Great Patriotic War and also traveled many places. Paustovsky directed all the power of his imagination to see the extraordinary in the ordinary. With the help of carefully and reliably described details of real life, he showed the reader the magic and poetry of it itself, and not some parallel reality. Nature and art were his main sources of inspiration, as the most harmonious thing in the world. Introductory article by Konstantin Paustovsky. The photographic materials are provided by the Moscow Literary Museum-K.G. Paustovsky Center.