Vladimir Soloukhin: Shadow of this beautiful world being incinerated

==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Russian writers on war ==== Vladimir SoloukhinFrom Autumn LeavesTranslated by Margaret Wettlin If a hundred years ago a poet could give himself up wholly to a contemplation of the beauty of the world, a modern poet in contemplating this beauty is aware of a shadow hovering […]

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