I examine the notion of culture as a psychedelic phenomenon in language learning. My approach to the term psychedelia is different from the 1960s' interpretation: it is the culture that reveals (deloo) its creator's psyche (psuche) and beguiles (deleazo) its receiver's psyche. Loving passionately the English language-culture since my childhood, I cherished a dream of becoming an English-speaking- writing-thinking person one day. First, my dream was triggered by my love of English language rock music, then by literature of the language and then by its entire culture. Through my literary works,...

Novel "Patologoanatom" is a story about a beautiful, deep, authentic and pure love, which unfortunately was crowned with a tragedy. One day everyone encounters bad things, sad events and unexpected losses. Everyone goes through such days in their own way. This book inspires the reader to accept life no matter how unbearable it may seem sometimes and keep looking for light. The story embraces two absolutely different lives of one person that happened 20 years apart. It is impossible not to fall in love with the novel and its main character. He is a real man of whom every woman dreams. His life...

"Russian Stories" (the black and white version with 50 black and white photographs) is an intriguing collection of 48 bright short stories eloquently written and masterfully told by Larisa Segida, an author with a unique literary style. Her characters are intertwined in the graceful lace of human love and hatred. Each story embraces the reader with the magical aroma of inimitable individual lives that came from the poignant era of the Soviet Union's death and settled down on this book's pages. It is a wonderfully embroidered journey to the depths of the famous, mystifying, beautiful,...

A young provincial girl comes to Moscow to reunite with her Grandmother who abandoned her granddaughter and her own son, the girl's father, years ago. Full of ambitions and dreams, Dina does not expect to encounter the poignant mystery hidden in her family's history. Her Grandmother seems marasmic in her speeches and cruel in the rules that she established for the girl in her enormous dark apartment in a Stalin's architecture building. One night when Dina discovers a terrible truth about her Grandma, she finds a family relict, diary "D," her Hungarian Grandfather's heritage, whose author is a...