After considerable hesitation and soul-searching I have decided to publish the letters Dmitry Dmitriyevich Shostakovich wrote to me. This choice by the composer's close friend Isaak Glikman brought the tormented feelings of the musical genius into public view. Now those feelings resound in the first substantial collection of Shostakovich's letters to appear in English.From the early 1930s until his death in 1975 Shostakovich wrote regularly to Glikman, a Leningrad theater critic and historian. The 288 letters included in this volume began in 1941, at the time of Operation Barbarossa and the...

Dr Phillips's volume, like the others in the series, contains the text in the NEB translation, with introductory material preceding it, and a commentary.

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After a lot of saving up, combined with a year of Japanese language evening classes, Anthony finally feels prepared to visit a country that had always seemed too far away and too daunting to ever experience for real. Join him on an amusing amble through the streets of Tokyo, where you can take a swim in Shinjuku, go on a hunt for breakfast swords, discover English literate ducks, throw cat food at fish, pretend to be a rock-star, experience a bottom full of pins, participate in a spot of kiosking , travel on trains with crustaceans, marvel at a golden tadpole, commute like a local, travel up...