Professor Marion Wyse: About The House of Foreign Books

This store takes me out of the dim dreariness of streets laced with gray and unintelligible signs with people walking by talking in a strange tongue. I the stranger am transplanted into a sphere where loneliness stalks – but only if I allow it though!

This store takes me out of the dim dreariness of streets laced with gray and unintelligible signs with people walking by talking in a strange tongue. I the stranger am transplanted into a sphere where loneliness stalks – but only if I allow it though! Entering this bookstore I can look at titles in a multitude of languages from a plethora of eras brought to me by the best and brightest of writers. The walls of dim antique wood border with genteel delicacy the quiet wanderers through the paths between book stacks, stacked thick with treasures. And I buy – ask the concierge if I don’t spend half my salary every time! This then guarantees me evenings of quiet pleasure where solitude is forgotten and the communication of heart mind soul with others ongoing. This is what literature is meant to be, and this store gives it.

Kouznetsky most str., 18/7, metro “Kouznetsky Most”

Site: http://www.mdk-arbat.ru/shop?SID=63

Marion Wyse