The White Birch
Autor: | Jeffreys, Tom |
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EAN: | 9781472155672 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Seitenzahl: | 352 |
Produktart: | Gebunden |
Veröffentlichungsdatum: | 03.06.2021 |
Untertitel: | A Russian Reflection |
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It has been hand-planted by Tsarinas and felled by foresters. It has been celebrated by peasants, worshipped by pagans and painted by artists. It has self-seeded across mountains and rivers and train tracks and steppe and right through the ruined modernity of a nuclear fall-out site. And like all symbols, the story of the birch has its share of horrors (white, straight, native, pure: how could it not?). But, maybe in the end, what I'm really in search of is a birch that means nothing: stripped of symbolism, bereft of use-value . . . A birch that is simply a tree in a land that couldn't give a shit.