Paper Golem

The book "Paper Golem" is a personal confession and intellectual manifesto by one of the most powerful contemporary Belarusian authors — Alhierd Bacharevič.
In some ways, it resembles a diary, in others, travel notes. Sometimes it transforms into a collection of short essays, poems, and aphorisms.
These texts were written in exile — angry and provocative, sad and sincere, full of pain, love, and thoughts about Belarus.
Bacharevič reflects on history and literature, language and creativity, on the West and the East, on escapes and returns, on what he has lost and what he has managed to preserve.
"Paper Golem" is a book in which the author reveals himself with maximum sincerity. Without filters, without masks, without compromises.

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In some ways, this book resembles a diary, in others, travel notes. Sometimes it pretends to be a string of poems and aphorisms, and sometimes – a collection of very short essays. "Paper Golem" features laconic and expressive, angry and provocative, melancholic and critical texts by Alhierd Bacharevič, written in exile. These are things that have been repeatedly heard from stages in various cities, in different languages, in interviews with Western media and in conversations with foreign readers. Things that the author is rarely asked about in Belarusian.

Writer Bacharevič – on history and literature, creativity and language, on fate and exile, pain and love. On what he has learned and understood. On himself and those around him. On our time, on his Belarus, on the West and the East, on the new and old world.

Alhierd Bacharevič's most sincere book.