Review by kylegarvey - A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life

A review by kylegarvey
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life by George Saunders

inspiring reflective medium-paced

3.0

Crisply evocative, elegant, but i think almost a little 'too' tidy. True, it's always far from your regular how-to -- and, in particular, I liked during one of the concluding sections, when Saunders looks at Tolstoy's "Alyosha the Pot" (a story I'd probably take for brusque 'not for me' morals) through a tiny tangle of translation that proves warm and pregnant. The humuility from everyone -- Saunders at present, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Gogol in amateur and unseen past -- deepens as it's marveled at. Generous it all is, magnificently humble, but for me a little too high on academia still.

A review by kylegarvey A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life by George Saunders

A review by kylegarvey
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life by George Saunders