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The following is excerpted from the Booklist starred review of A Russian Jew of Bloomsbury by Galya Diment.
It’s amazing, despite his severe depressions and mental breakdowns, his irascible temperament and notorious hatreds, that he was able to maintain these friendships. With D. H. Lawrence, Katherine Mansfield, John Middleton Murry, and Leonard and Virginia Woolf (the Woolfs published Kot in their Hogarth Press), he translated Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Gorky, Bunin, and Andreyev, and he believed “publishers exist to lose money on good books.” In Diment’s lively, perceptive, and sympathetic but objective biography, Kot steps out of the shadows and takes center stage. Though nourished by his stimulating friends, he led a rather sad, Jamesian unlived life. Two mysteries remain. It’s unclear how he managed to support himself between his low-paying jobs, and where this bachelor’s passionate intensity found a sexual outlet.
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