Journey into the Mind's Eye by Lesley Blanch

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Journey into the Mind's Eye by Lesley Blanch

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Journey into the Mind's Eye by Lesley Blanch

A stunning tale set in England, Paris, and Moscow, chronicling Blanch's love for an older Russian man and the passionate obsession that takes her to Siberia and beyond.

My book is not altogether autobiography, nor altogether travel or history either. You will just have to invent a new category, Lesley Blanch wrote about Journey into the Mind's Eye, a book that remains as singularly adventurous and intoxicating now as when it first came out in 1968.

Russia seized Lesley Blanch when she was still a child. A mysterious traveler--swathed in Siberian furs, bearing Faberg eggs and icons as gifts along with Russian fairy tales and fairy tales of Russia--came to visit her parents and left her starry-eyed. Years later the same man returned to sweep her off her feet. Her love affair with the Traveller, as she calls him, transformed her life and fueled an abiding fascination with Russia and Russian culture, one that would lead her to dingy apartments reeking of cabbage soup and piroshki on the outskirts of Paris in the 1960s, and to Siberia and beyond.

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Lesley Blanch (1904-2007), a academic romantic, influenced and inspired generations of writers, readers, and critics. During World War Two, she was a well-known writer, artist, theatrical critic, and features editor for British Vogue. Blanch was ahead of her time with foresighted in her attempts to unite the West and the East, particularly the West and Islam. 'General de Gaulle wrote me a nice letter about The Sabres of Paradise, and I've heard that he remarked it was unusual that a woman should be able to understand the wars so well and write them so vividly,' she said in an interview with Shusha Guppy. Virago released her memoir On the Wider Shores of Love: A Bohemian Life. Visit Lesley's website at www.lesleyblanch.com to learn more about her.

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ISBN 13 9780712615716
ISBN 10 0712615717
Title Journey into the Mind's Eye
Author Lesley Blanch
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Vintage Publishing
Year published 1987-02-01
Number of pages 376
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.