becomes a panoptic spectacle for the tourist horde

the only successes in that notoriously labile form

It is these lacunae, these intense specializations of awareness

the raconteur of the pampas

Holding himself so beautifully aloof from the bombast, the bullying

The matter of his singsong is ordure, solitude, and the ghostly self-sufficiency that comes after a long fast.

And, to make matters worse, the good burghers are about to stage another one of their tomfool carnivals.

Punctuating these homilies are the literal "voices from the chorus"

In the Soviet Union, Chukovskaya's writings circulate, where at all, by clandestine mimeographs.

pellucidly translated