Tag Lermontov

The Foreshadowings. My next novel.

Dr. Corin Throsby, a Cambridge academic, writes in The Times’ Literary Supplement: Byron knew, more than any author before him, the power of an ellipsis. Foreshadowing twentieth-century theorists such as Wolfgang Iser, who posited that it is primarily the reader…

[Lermontov’s Thanksgiving]

Thanksgiving For all, for all I thank you: For the secret pangs of passions, For the bitterness of tears, for the poison of the kiss, For the revenge of enemies and the calumny of friends; For my soul’s ardor wasted…