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Sonechka

Author : Ludmila Ulitskaya
Publisher : Schocken
ISBN 13 : 0307427889
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Sonechka written by Ludmila Ulitskaya and published by Schocken. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Los Angeles Times said of Ludmila Ulitskaya’s The Funeral Party, “In America we have friends, family, lovers, and parents–four kinds of love. Could it really be that in Russia they have more? Ludmila Ulitskaya makes it seem so.” In Sonechka: A Novella and Stories, Ulitskaya brings us tales of these other loves in her richly lyrical prose, populated with captivating and unusual characters. In “Queen of Spades,” Anna, a successful ophthalmologic surgeon in her sixties; her daughter, Katya; and Katya’s teenage daughter and young son live in constant terror of Anna’s mother, a domineering, autocratic, aging former beauty queen. In “Angel,” a closeted middle-aged professor marries an uneducated charwoman for love of her young son, raising the child in his image. In “The Orlov-Sokolovs,” perfectly matched young lovers are pulled apart by the Soviet academic bureaucracy. And in the stunning novella “Sonechka,” the heroine, a bookworm turned muse turned mother, reveals a love and loyalty at once astounding in its generosity and grotesque in its pathos. In these stories, love and life are lived under the radar of oppression, in want of material comfort, in obeisance to or matter-of-fact rejection of the pervasive restrictions of Soviet rule. If living well is the best revenge, then Ludmila Ulitskaya’s characters, in choosing to embrace the unique gifts that their lives bring them, are small heroes of the quotidian, their stories as funny and tender as they are brilliantly told.

Marina Tsvetaeva

Author : Simon Karlinsky
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 : 9780521275743
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (757 download)

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Download or read book Marina Tsvetaeva written by Simon Karlinsky and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1985 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a major critical biography of the poet Maria Tsvetaeva by one of the foremost authorities on her work. It draws on a profusion of recent documentation and research, some of it hitherto unpublished, and encompasses the whole course of her life. Professor Karlinsky is careful to supply the reader with the necessary context for understanding the work by setting out the historical, political and literary background against which Tsvetaeva's life and literary development evolved. A particular feature of the book is a discussion of Tsvetaeva's relationships with her literary contemporaries, especially Mandelstam, Rilke, Akhmatova, Pasternak, and Mayakovsky, and of her emotional involvement with various men and women that are reflected in her poetry, plays and prose. Interest in Tsvetaeva's work has grown considerably and this important book will be essential reading both to scholars of twentieth-century Russian literature and cultural studies and to all serious students of modern literature.

Sexuality and the Body in Russian Culture

Author : Jane T. Costlow
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804731553
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Sexuality and the Body in Russian Culture written by Jane T. Costlow and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twelve groundbreaking essays show the varied and complex ways in which ideas about sexuality, gender, and the body have shaped and been influenced by Russian literature, history, art, and philosophy from the medieval period to the present day.

Sonechka and Other Stories

Author : Li︠u︡dmila Ulit︠s︡kai︠a︡
Publisher : Glas New Russian Writting
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Sonechka and Other Stories written by Li︠u︡dmila Ulit︠s︡kai︠a︡ and published by Glas New Russian Writting. This book was released on 1998 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Physically unattractive, lanky Sonechka with her skinny legs and flat bum, has for defensive reasons been a bookworm since the age of seven. Only when she is twenty-seven is she discovered, working in the basement of a Siberian library by artist Robert Victorvich who, already internationally renowned, returned to Russia in the early 1930's only to be exiled to the labour camps. When in Robert's old age a new romance invades their marriage, Sonechka reveals unexpected reserves of womanly strength. Sonechkais a novel whose unconventional and understated heroine will delight the English-speaking world.Sonechkawas short-listed for the Booker Russian Novel Prize and has been enthusiastically received in French, German, and Italian translations. It has been awarded the Medici Prize for foreign fiction in France and the Penne Prize in Italy.

The Svetlana Boym Reader

Author : Svetlana Boym
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501337505
Total Pages : 557 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book The Svetlana Boym Reader written by Svetlana Boym and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2018-04-19 with total page 557 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Svetlana Boym was a prolific writer, a charismatic professor, a novelist, and a public intellectual. She was also a fiercely resourceful and reflective immigrant; her most resonant book, The Future of Nostalgia, was deeply rooted in that experience. Even after The Future of Nostalgia carried her fame beyond academic circles, few readers were aware of all of her creative personas. She was simply too prolific, and her work migrated across most people's disciplinary boundaries-from literary and cultural studies through film, visual, and material culture studies, performance, intermedia, and new media. The Svetlana Boym Reader presents a comprehensive view of Boym's singularly creative work in all its aspects. It includes Boym's classic essays, carefully chosen excerpts from her five books, and journalistic gems. Showcasing her roles both as curator and curated, the reader includes interviews and excerpts from exhibition catalogues as well as samples of intermedial works like Hydrant Immigrants. It also features autobiographical pieces that shed light on the genealogy of her scholarly work and rarities like an excerpt from Boym's first graduate school essay on Russian literature, complete with marginalia by her mentor Donald Fanger. Last but not least, the reader includes late pieces that Boym did not live to see through publication, as well as transcripts of her memorable last lectures and performances.

The Funeral Party

Author : Ludmila Ulitskaya
Publisher : Schocken
ISBN 13 : 030777256X
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book The Funeral Party written by Ludmila Ulitskaya and published by Schocken. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: August 1991. In a sweltering New York City apartment, a group of Russian émigrés gathers round the deathbed of an artist named Alik, a charismatic character beloved by them all, especially the women who take turns nursing him as he fades from this world. Their reminiscences of the dying man and of their lives in Russia are punctuated by debates and squabbles: Whom did Alik love most? Should he be baptized before he dies, as his alcoholic wife, Nina, desperately wishes, or be reconciled to the faith of his birth by a rabbi who happens to be on hand? And what will be the meaning for them of the Yeltsin putsch, which is happening across the world in their long-lost Moscow but also right before their eyes on CNN? This marvelous group of individuals inhabits the first novel by Ludmila Ulitskaya to be published in English, a book that was shortlisted for the Russian Booker Prize and has been praised wherever translated editions have appeared. Simultaneously funny and sad, lyrical in its Russian sorrow and devastatingly keen in its observation of character, The Funeral Party introduces to our shores a wonderful writer who captures, wryly and tenderly, our complex thoughts and emotions confronting life and death, love and loss, homeland and exile.

Gender and Sexuality in Russian Civilization

Author : Peter I. Barta
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415271301
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (713 download)

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Download or read book Gender and Sexuality in Russian Civilization written by Peter I. Barta and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gender and Sexuality in Russian Civilisation considers gender and sexuality in modern Russia in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Chapters look individually at gender and sexuality through history, art, folklore, philosophy or literature,but are also arranged into sections according to the arguments they develop. A number of chapters also consider Russia in the Soviet and post-Soviet periods. Thematic sections include: *Gender and Power *Gender and National Identity *Sexual Identity and Artistic Impression *Literary Discourse of Male and Female Sexualities *Sexuality and Literature in Contemporary Russian Society

Glas

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Glas written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Marina Tsvetaeva

Author : Lily Feiler
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822314820
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (148 download)

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Download or read book Marina Tsvetaeva written by Lily Feiler and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She shows us a woman embodying the values of nineteenth-century romanticism, yet radical in her poetry, supremely independent in her art, but desperate for appreciation and love, simultaneously mother and child in her complicated sexual relationships with men and women. Here we see the poet who could read her work glorifying the White Army to an audience of Red Army men, the woman who, with her husband a Soviet agent in Paris, could write a long poem about the execution of the last Tsar.

Russian at Heart

Author : Olga Hawkes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780958292337
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (923 download)

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Download or read book Russian at Heart written by Olga Hawkes and published by . This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of a family in an era made famous in the novel and film, Dr Zhivago. Sonechka Balk was born into the gentry in the Crimea in 1904. She is the youngest of four children. World War One and the revolution tears her family apart; relationships are destroyed by events beyond her control. An orphaned teenager, Sonechka is forced to work for Lenin's secret police, the Cheka, counting the bodies of those who have died of starvation and those murdered by the Bolsheviks.

The Man with the Black Coat

Author : Даниил Хармс
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810115736
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (157 download)

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Download or read book The Man with the Black Coat written by Даниил Хармс and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together works by two of the outstanding talents of Soviet literature, Daniil Kharms and Alexander Vvedensky. It discloses a little-known tradition of absurdism that persisted during the Stalinist period, a testimony to both the hardiness of the Russian imagination in the face of socialist realism and the vitality of an important cultural and literary tradition.

Gender and Sexuality in Russian Civilisation

Author : Peter I. Barta
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134699379
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)

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Download or read book Gender and Sexuality in Russian Civilisation written by Peter I. Barta and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gender and Sexuality in Russian Civilisation considers gender and sexuality in modern Russia in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Chapters look individually at gender and sexuality through history, art, folklore, philosophy or literature,but are also arranged into sections according to the arguments they develop. A number of chapters also consider Russia in the Soviet and post-Soviet periods. Thematic sections include: *Gender and Power *Gender and National Identity *Sexual Identity and Artistic Impression *Literary Discourse of Male and Female Sexualities *Sexuality and Literature in Contemporary Russian Society

Ludmila Ulitskaya and the Art of Tolerance

Author : Elizabeth Skomp
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN 13 : 0299304140
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (993 download)

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Download or read book Ludmila Ulitskaya and the Art of Tolerance written by Elizabeth Skomp and published by University of Wisconsin Pres. This book was released on 2015-06-11 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Novelist Ludmila Ulitskaya is a best-selling and critically lauded Russian writer who champions the values of liberalism and tolerance and critiques Putin's policies. This is the first English-language book about this important writer, placing her in the shifting landscape of post-Soviet society and culture.

Dinner with Stalin and Other Stories

Author : David Shrayer-Petrov
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 0815610335
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (156 download)

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Download or read book Dinner with Stalin and Other Stories written by David Shrayer-Petrov and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-28 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These fourteen stories by the acclaimed master of Jewish-Russian fiction are set in the former USSR, Western Europe, and America. Dinner with Stalin features Soviet Jews grappling with issues of identity, acculturation, and assimilation. Shrayer-Petrov explores aspects of antisemitism and persecution, problems of mixed marriages, dilemmas of conversion, and the survival of Jewish memory. Both an author and a physician, Shrayer-Petrov examines his subjects through the double lenses of medicine and literature. He writes about Russian Jews who, having suffered in the former Soviet Union, continue to cultivate their sense of cultural Russianness, even as they—and especially their children—assimilate and increasingly resemble American Jews. Shrayer-Petrov’s stories also bear witness to the ways Jewish immigrants from the former USSR interact with Americans of other identities and creeds, notably with Catholics and Moslems. Not only lovers of Jewish and Russian writing but all discriminating readers will delight in Dinner with Stalin and Other Stories.

Moscow Performances II

Author : John Freedman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135293252
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book Moscow Performances II written by John Freedman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-06-28 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of John Freedman's reviews and articles, most originally written for the Moscow Times, in which he focuses his expert critical eye on the directors, writers and actors who held centre stage during the 1996-97 theatre season in Moscow. The book looks at the debut of promising new artists and directors at the Moscow Art Theatre celebrating its 100th anniversary this year and offers a wealth of insight into the latest developments in Russian theatre. Freedman illuminates all of the season's noteworthy trends and events in clear, informed and unapologetically opinionated reports. More than just an overview of the stars and highlights, Moscow Performances II observes at close range the playhouses and the people who make up the ever-changing face of contemporary Russian theatre today. This volume is generously illustrated with photographs of featured productions and will be a useful reference for students, professors, writers, directors and actors in the fields of Russian studies, theatre studies, theatre history and contemporary culture.

Chance Encounters

Author : Alexey Tolstoy
Publisher : TSK Group LLC
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 79 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chance Encounters written by Alexey Tolstoy and published by TSK Group LLC. This book was released on 2024-04-08 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An aristocrat, an exile, a contradiction, and a tortured soul, Alexei Nikolayevich Tolstoy offers a series of strange and unusual meetings at various points in space and in time. This collection includes the following works: - Marie Antoinette's Tapestry - Smoke - Foggy Day - Viper - Mrs. Brisley - Afanasy Ivanovich's Will - Out Fishing - Housemate - Meeting

Crime and Punishment

Author : Fyodor Dostoevsky
Publisher : Everyman's Library
ISBN 13 : 0679420290
Total Pages : 602 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (794 download)

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Download or read book Crime and Punishment written by Fyodor Dostoevsky and published by Everyman's Library. This book was released on 1993-05-25 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A masterpiece of guilt and redemption that transforms the sordid story of an old woman’s murder into the nineteenth century’s profoundest and most compelling philosophical novel. • ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME Raskolnikov, an impoverished student living in the St. Petersburg of the tsars, is determined to overreach his humanity and assert his untrammeled individual will. When he commits an act of murder and theft, he sets into motion a story that, for its excruciating suspense, its atmospheric vividness, and its depth of characterization and vision is almost unequaled in the literatures of the world. The best known of Dostoevsky’s masterpieces, Crime and Punishment can bear any amount of rereading without losing a drop of its power over our imaginations. Award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky render this elusive and wildly innovative novel with an energy, suppleness, and range of voice that do full justice to the genius of its creator. Everyman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket. Everyman’s Library Classics include an introduction, a select bibliography, and a chronology of the author's life and times.