The Body of the Soul: Stories (Ulitskaya Ludmila)(Paperback) - diskuze

A new collection of stories by the acclaimed Ludmila Ulitskaya, masterfully translated into English "[A] magnificent collection . . . [by] a writer of boundless tenderness."--Genevive Brisac, Le Monde While we can feel, know, and study the body, the soul refuses definition. Where does it begin and end? What does the soul have to do with love? Does it exist at all, and if so, does it outlast the body? Or are the soul and body really one and the same? These are questions posed by the characters who inhabit this book of stories by the award-winning Russian writer Ludmila Ulitskaya. A woman believes that the best way to control her life is to control her death. A landscape photographer wonders if the beauty he has witnessed can triumph over decay. A coroner dedicated to science is confronted by a startling physical anomaly, a lonely widow experiences an
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