The Book of Beasts Entomology The Soviet writer Andrey Platonov

The Soviet writer Andrey Platonov saw much of his work suppressed or censored in his lifetime

and Florilegium

Often called the grandfather of Russian rocketry

and Alejandro Acosta

For a new generation of innovative post-Soviet Russian writers he figures as a daring explorer of word and world

The Book of Beasts Entomology The Soviet writer Andrey PlatonovThe Book of Beasts. Being a Translation from a Latin Bestiary of the Twelfth Century. Made and Edited by T. H. White If a serpent swallows the spittle of a fasting man, it dies. Trees felled in the wrong season breed termites. If eels are drowned in wine, those who drink it get a loathing for liquor. These and similar flights of fancy were articles of faith in the twelfth century the era of the fascinating Latin prose bestiary translated in this