Russian Translation of BBD

Russian translation of The Basketball Diaries
By Jim Carroll
Translated by Ekaterina Matveeva
Alex Kervey, Editor-in-Chief
Moscow: Adaptec, T-ough Press / AST, 2005

Excerpt:

Russian translation excerpt

From The Basketball Diaries, Penguin Edition (1987), pages 140-41.

Fall 1965

A note found on one of those little homework pads you cop for ten cents at Gussie's . . . I wrote on an experience with L.S. D. a while ago:

"Little kids shoot marbles
where the branches break the sun

into graceful shafts of light . . .
I just want to be pure."

I found it all crumbled up in these old pants in history class this morning.

Thanks to the translator for sharing this!

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