I'm an artist and a blogger. You can see my works and writings on my website:

https://www.marina-antonova.com/

you're also welcome to follow me on Instagram:

@marina.antonova.art

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I like both hosting and surfing.

Interests

I like museums, galleries and book shops. I'm a calm and quiet guest, not a party person.

• animals
• arts
• books
• traveling
• painting
• music
• surfing
• animation
• ecology
• hitchhiking

Music, Movies, and Books

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Brodsky, Dostoevsky, Bulgakov; Joyce, Oscar Wilde, T.S. Eliot, John Berger, Scott Fitzgerald, Ted Hughes, Silvia Plath, Salinger; Tomas Mann, Goethe, Hesse, Rilke, Trakl; Jean-Paul Sartre, Camus; Tomas Transtromer; Borges; Margaret Atwood.

I'm a big fan of Japanese culture and literature, some of my favourite writers: Yasunari Kawabata, Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Kazuo Ishiguro, Junichiro Tanizaki, Osamu Dazai, Murasaki Shikibu, Sei Shonagon, Yukio Mishima, Matsuo Bashō, Masaoka Shiki, Itō Sachio.

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Tarkovsky, Sokurov, Bergman, Fellini, Trier, Jarmusch, David Lynch, Michelangelo Antonioni, Paolo Sorrentino, Wim Wenders, Greenaway, Kurosawa, Elio Petri, Tonino Guerra, Jan Švankmajer and many others

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Bach, Olivier Messiaen, Schnittke, Shostakovich, Prokofiev, Rachmaninoff, Stravinsky, Scriabin, Mahler, Schoenberg, Debussy, Britten, Arvo Pärt, Philip Glass, Erik Satie;

Brian Eno, Klaus Schulze, Coil, Depeche Mode, Moby, Queen, Beatles, the Smiths, Portishead, Nick Cave, Dead Can Dance, Nina Simon, David Bowie, The Doors, Antony and the Johnsons, Morcheeba

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

jump of the bridge

Countries I’ve Visited

Belarus, Brazil, Cambodia, India, Ireland, Italy, Laos, Latvia, Malaysia, Poland, Thailand, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Russian Federation