Before and During - Vladimir Sharov Remedios Varo Growing up in the paranoia

Growing up in the paranoia and false optimism of mid-century suburban Southern California

illuminating a long-ignored field

caught between the misleading world of childlike fantasy and the bitter world of reality

this collection seeks to expand the ideas of both contemporary fiction and feminism to new fronts

grew up at La Borde psychiatric clinic (Cour-Cheverny dans le Loir-et-Cher)

Before and During - Vladimir Sharov Remedios Varo Growing up in the paranoiaBefore and During by Vladimir Sharov, translated by Oliver Ready ISBN 9781907650710 348 page paperback from Dedalus European Classics *** Set in a psychiatric clinic in Moscow in the long decades of late Soviet stagnation, Before and During sweeps the reader away from its dismal surroundings on a series of fantastical excursions into the Russian past. We meet Leo Tolstoy's twin brother, eaten by the great writer in his mother's womb, only to be born