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August 11, 2008
Mondana Commedia n.3: Paradiso
(World Comedy n.3: Paradise)
Dostoevskij, Tolstoj, Baghavad gita, Basho
by Guido Monte
Multilingual Poetry
Dostoevskij's room© 2008 Guido Monte
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(Swans - August 11, 2008)
schastie est' v kazdom iz nas, paradise is inside everyone
paradise: listochki deti sizarì little leaves children blue doves
nasto mohah blindness doesn't exist, no more
goryàcij hleb pokrytyj mukòj
warm home-made bread
and flour all round
mizu no oto sound of water
The author thanks Elena Shepeleva and Inga Merzliakova.
Paradise is only the third part of my World Comedy, but I've decided to begin with it because I want to remember the Russian university students that helped me, some days ago in St. Petersburg, to discover phrases and words of Dostoevskij and Tolstoj.
Photo: Dostoevskij's room, by Guido Monte (2008)
[ed. Guido Monte left Sicily last month for a one-week trip to Russia. He visited Moscow and St. Petersburg where he received a friendly welcome, and guiding help from four Russian university students. He had long dreamed of visiting the home of Dostoevskij, which he did -- hence the photo.]
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