Leningrad by Igor Vishnevetsky

Author:Igor Vishnevetsky
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2013-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

XXIX

From Gleb’s notebook:

January 15:

The important thing is not to eat

dirty old paste from the wallpaper, nothing boils out of it;

belts—they’re treated with some kind of chemical—

it isn’t rawhide, like

the polar explorers used to boil up,

and not to eat the strange meat jelly sold on the black market.

God knows, what if it’s boiled out of corpses from the nearest

cemetery?

Or rather, the cemetery that is everywhere now.

Vera said fifty bodies have been left where they lie, littering

the freezing halls of the Hermitage.

Better diarrhea and vomit than losing one’s mind.

Better the aching hunger . . .

Although it’s not really any better.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.