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Pavel Zaltsman

  • Biography
    • Photoalbum
  • Paintings and graphics
    • Leningrad period
      • Paintings of the Leningrad period
      • Drawings of the Leningrad period
      • Watercolors of the Leningrad period
      • Illustrations of the Leningrad period
    • Alma-Ata period
      • Paintings of the Alma-Ata period
      • Watercolors of the Alma-Ata period
      • Big drawings of Alma-Ata period
      • Small drawings of Alma-Ata period
  • Literature
    • Poetry
  • Filmography
    • Sketches for films
  • Decorative
    • Monumental art
    • Appliques
    • Sculptures
  • Bibliography
  • Exhibitions
    • Personal exhibitions
    • Group exhibitions
  • En
    • Рус.


  • Biography
    • Photoalbum
  • Paintings and graphics
    • Leningrad period
      • Paintings of the Leningrad period
      • Drawings of the Leningrad period
      • Watercolors of the Leningrad period
      • Illustrations of the Leningrad period
    • Alma-Ata period
      • Paintings of the Alma-Ata period
      • Watercolors of the Alma-Ata period
      • Big drawings of Alma-Ata period
      • Small drawings of Alma-Ata period
  • Literature
    • Poetry
  • Filmography
    • Sketches for films
  • Decorative
    • Monumental art
    • Appliques
    • Sculptures
  • Bibliography
  • Exhibitions
    • Personal exhibitions
    • Group exhibitions
  • English
    • Русский

  • Growl

    I’m a fool, I’m shit, I’m a wretch,

    I’ll kill any man for sausage.

    But open up, please, let us in,

    We’ve scratched like beasts for days on end.

    I suffer, you hangmen, can’t you see

    From urinary incontinency!

    September 17, 1941.

    Karl Marx Factory.

    Translated by Charles Swank and Matvei Yankelevich.
    © and courtesy of Ugly Duckling Presse, 2016.

  • Contacts
    • Dinnertime Ode to Chub
    • Growl
    • In heels and pilfered silks
    • No, I don’t know from Job
    • No, I don’t understand a thing
    • The Apocalypse
    • Contacts