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The Kukotsky Enigma

Author : Ludmila Ulitskaya
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810133490
Total Pages : 583 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book The Kukotsky Enigma written by Ludmila Ulitskaya and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2016-08-15 with total page 583 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Translated from the Russian by Diane Nemec Ignashev The central character in Ludmila Ulitskaya’s celebrated novel The Kukotsky Enigma is a gynecologist contending with Stalin’s prohibition of abortions in 1936. But, in the tradition of Russia’s great family novels, the story encompasses the history of two families and unfolds in Moscow, St. Petersburg, and the ruins of ancient civilizations on the Black Sea. Their lives raise profound questions about family heritage and genetics, nurture and nature, and life and death. In his struggle to maintain his professional integrity and to keep his work from dividing his family, Kukotsky confronts the moral complexity of reproductive science. Winner of the 2001 Russian Booker Prize and the basis for a blockbuster television miniseries, The Kukotsky Enigma is an engrossing, searching novel by one of contemporary literature’s most brilliant writers.

The Kukotsky Enigma

Author : L. Ultiskaya
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (961 download)

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Download or read book The Kukotsky Enigma written by L. Ultiskaya and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Kukotsky Enigma – a novel on abortion?

Author : Lea Williwald
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3346500071
Total Pages : 18 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (465 download)

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Download or read book The Kukotsky Enigma – a novel on abortion? written by Lea Williwald and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essay from the year 2021 in the subject Literature - General, grade: 1,00, , course: History of Literature, language: English, abstract: Ludmila Ulitskaya is a renowned Russian writer and "The Kukotsky Enigma" is among some of her most famous novels. It revolves around the story of a family and how they function as Russia changes throughout the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Doktor Pavel Alekseevich Kukotsky is at the center of the story as he tries to keep up with the effects, political changes have on his profession, which is specifically focussed on women's health. Consequentially, abortion, motherhood and femininity become central parts of the novel. This essay asks the question of whether the novel takes a clear stance towards or against the legalization of abortion, thereby discussing Ulitskaya's views, the theory of the artist's intention behind art, and basic concepts of women's reproductive health such as the Pro-Choice movement.

No Love Without Poetry

Author : Ariadna Efron
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810125897
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book No Love Without Poetry written by Ariadna Efron and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2009-08-17 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The memoirs of Ariadna Efron have informed all important studies of Marina Tsvetaeva’s writing and are indispensable to a complete understanding of her life and work. Never before translated into English, these memoirs provide the insider’s view of Tsvetaeva’s daughter and "first reader." No Love Without Poetry gives us Efron’s wrenching story of the difficulty of living with genius. The hardships imposed by early twentieth-century Russian political upheaval placed incredible strain on her already fraught, intense relationship with her mother. Efron recounts the family’s travels from Moscow to Germany, to Czechoslovakia, and finally to France, where, against her mother’s advice, Efron decided to return to Russia. Nemec Ignashev draws on new materials, including Efron’s short stories and her mother’s recently published notebooks, to supplement the original memoirs. No Love Without Poetry completes extant historical records on Marina Tsvetaeva and establishes Ariadna Efron as a literary force.

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.

Medea and Her Children

Author : Ludmila Ulitskaya
Publisher : Schocken
ISBN 13 : 0307426831
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Medea and Her Children written by Ludmila Ulitskaya and published by Schocken. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medea Georgievna Sinoply Mendez is an iconic figure in her Crimean village, the last remaining pure-blooded Greek in a family that has lived on that coast for centuries. Childless Medea is the touchstone of a large family, which gathers each spring and summer at her home. There are her nieces (sexy Nike and shy Masha), her nephew Georgii (who shares Medea’s devotion to the Crimea), and their friends. In this single summer, the languor of love will permeate the Crimean air, hearts will be broken, and old memories will float to consciousness, allowing us to experience not only the shifting currents of erotic attraction and competition, but also the dramatic saga of this family amid the forces of dislocation, war, and upheaval of twentieth-century Russian life.

Trance

Author : Christopher Sorrentino
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1429932724
Total Pages : 643 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Trance written by Christopher Sorrentino and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2006-04-18 with total page 643 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1974: A tiny band of self-styled urban guerrillas, calling itself the Symbionese Liberation Army, abducts a newspaper heiress, who then abruptly announces that she has adopted the guerrilla name "Tania" and chosen to remain with her former captors. Has she been brainwashed? Coerced? Could she be sincere? Why would such a nice girl disavow her loving parents, her adoring fiancé, her comfortable home? Why would she suddenly adopt the SLA's cri de coeur, "Death to the Fascist Insect that Preys Upon the Life of the People"? Soon most of the SLA are dead, killed in a suicidal confrontation with police in Los Angeles, forcing Tania and her two remaining comrades--the pompous and abusive General Teko and his duplicitous lieutenant, Yolanda--into hiding, where they will remain for the next sixteen months. Trance, Christopher Sorrentino's mesmerizing and brilliant second novel, traces this fugitive period, leading the reader on a breathtaking, hilarious, and heartbreaking underground tour across a beleaguered America, in the company of scam artists, visionaries, cultists, and a mismatched gang of middle-class people who typify the guiding conceit of their time, that of self-renovation. Along the way he tells the story of a nation divided against itself--parents and children, men and women, black and white; a story of hidebound tradition and radical change, of truth and propaganda, of cynicism and idealism; a story as transfixing and relevant today as it was then. Insightful, compassionate, scathingly funny, and moving, Trance is a virtuoso performance, placing Christopher Sorrentino in the first rank of American novelists. Trance is a 2005 National Book Award Finalist for Fiction.

Jacob's Ladder

Author : Ludmila Ulitskaya
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 0374715904
Total Pages : 561 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book Jacob's Ladder written by Ludmila Ulitskaya and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2019-07-09 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of Russia’s most renowned literary figures and a Man Booker International Prize nominee, Ludmila Ulitskaya presents what may be her final novel. Jacob’s Ladder is a family saga spanning a century of recent Russian history—and represents the summation of the author’s career, devoted to sharing the absurd and tragic tales of twentieth-century life in her nation. Jumping between the diaries and letters of Jacob Ossetsky in Kiev in the early 1900s and the experiences of his granddaughter Nora in the theatrical world of Moscow in the 1970s and beyond, Jacob’s Ladder guides the reader through some of the most turbulent times in the history of Russia and Ukraine, and draws suggestive parallels between historical events of the early twentieth century and those of more recent memory. Spanning the seeming promise of the prerevolutionary years, to the dark Stalinist era, to the corruption and confusion of the present day, Jacob’s Ladder is a pageant of romance, betrayal, and memory. With a scale worthy of Tolstoy, it asks how much control any of us have over our lives—and how much is in fact determined by history, by chance, or indeed by the genes passed down by the generations that have preceded us into the world.

Daniel Stein, Interpreter

Author : Ludmila Ulitskaya
Publisher : Scribe Publications
ISBN 13 : 1921844434
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book Daniel Stein, Interpreter written by Ludmila Ulitskaya and published by Scribe Publications. This book was released on 2011 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'This world in which we have so much difficulty living is filled with misunderstanding at every level.' What can one man do, faced with such a world? Daniel Stein, Interpreter explores the lives of those affected by some of the worst conflicts of the twentieth century, from survivors of the ghetto and escapes of Soviet oppression to those caught up in the violence of the Arab-Israeli conflict. All of them have one thing in common: their lives are touched by Daniel Stein. Stein is a Polish Jew, who miraculously survives the Holocaust by working for the Gestapo as an interpreter. After the war, he converts to Catholicism, becomes a priest, enters the Order of Barefoot Carmelites, and emigrates to Israel. Despite this seemingly impossible progression, the life and destiny of Daniel Stein are not an invention – the character is based on the life of Oswald Rufeisen, the real Brother Daniel. Feeling his life has saved in the war for a reason, Stein dedicates himself to bringing understanding and reconciliation to a violent world, in his own compassionate and irreverent way. In an age of increasing mistrust between faiths, Daniel Stein, Interpreter serves as a timely and nuanced exploration of what it might mean to really try to understand each other. Staggering in scope, Daniel Stein, Interpreter is already seen by many as the great Russian novel of our time. Winner of the Russian National Literary Prize and the Prix Simone de Beauvoir, Ludmila Ulitskaya has earned accolades abroad for this courageous work, at last available in English. 'A feat of love and tolerance.' The Washington Post 'Ludmila Ulitskaya arrives here not just as a shrewd novelist, but as a wise and evocative artist.' The Philadelphia Inquirer 'A fascinating work . . . Achieves the height of virtuosity.' Le Monde

Sashenka

Author : Simon Sebag Montefiore
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416595546
Total Pages : 539 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Sashenka written by Simon Sebag Montefiore and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008 with total page 539 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winter, 1916: In St Petersburg, Russia on the brink of revolution. Outside the Smolny Institute for Noble Young Ladies, an English governess is waiting for her young charge to be released from school. But so are the Tsar's secret police... Beautiful and headstrong, Sashenka Zeitlin is just 18. In the evenings when her mother is partying with Rasputin and her dissolute friends, Sashenka becomes Comrade Snowfox and slips into the frozen night to play her part in a dangerous game of conspiracy and seduction. Twenty years on, and Sashenka is married to a dashing Communist leader with whom she has two children. Around her people are disappearing, but her own family is safe. But she is about to embark on a forbidden love affair, which will have devastating consequences. Sashenka's story lies hidden for half a century, until a young historian goes deep into Stalin's private archives and uncovers a heart-breaking story of passion and betrayal, savage cruelty and unexpected heroism--and one woman forced to make an unbearable choice.

Picture Imperfect

Author : Saradindu Bandyopadhyay
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 9351187918
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book Picture Imperfect written by Saradindu Bandyopadhyay and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2000-10-14 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Classic tales of crime detection featuring Byomkesh Bakshi, the master inquisitor Written long before Satyajit Ray’s Feluda series, Saradindu Bandyopadhyay’s Byomkesh Bakshi mysteries heralded a new era in Bengali popular fiction. Set in the old-world Calcutta of the Raj, these stories featuring the astute investigator and his chronicler friend Ajit are still as gripping and delightful as when they first appeared. Byomkesh’s world, peopled with wonderfully delineated characters and framed by a brilliantly captured pre-Independence urban milieu, is fascinating because of its contemporary flavor. In the first story, Byomkesh works undercover to expose an organized crime ring trafficking in drugs. In ‘The Gramophone Pin Mystery’, he must put his razor-sharp intellect to good use to unearth the pattern behind a series of bizarre roadside murders. In ‘Calamity Strikes’, the ace detective is called upon to investigate the strange and sudden death of a girl in a neighbour’s kitchen. In the next story, he has to lock horns with an old enemy who has vowed to kill him with an innocuous but deadly weapon. And in ‘Picture Imperfect’, Byomkesh Bakshi unravels a complex mystery involving a stolen group photograph, an amorous couple, and an apparently unnecessary murder. Available in English for the first time in a superb translation, these stories will captivate every lover of crime fiction, young and old alike.

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.

Glas

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Glas written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Strange Life of Ivan Osokin

Author : P. D. Ouspensky
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
ISBN 13 : 0486843513
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (868 download)

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Download or read book Strange Life of Ivan Osokin written by P. D. Ouspensky and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2020-05-21 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A brilliant fantasy." -- Manchester Guardian. What would you do if you could re-live your life? In his only novel, occultist P. D. Ouspensky expands upon his concept of eternal recurrence, telling of a man who travels back in time and attempts to correct the mistakes of his schooldays and early manhood, including his romantic misadventures. Set in Moscow and Paris, the story served as an inspiration for the movie Groundhog Day.

Little Zinnobers

Author : Elena Chizhova
Publisher : Glagoslav Publications
ISBN 13 : 1911414402
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (114 download)

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Download or read book Little Zinnobers written by Elena Chizhova and published by Glagoslav Publications. This book was released on 2019-01-02 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is it possible to cultivate fundamental human values if you live in a totalitarian state? A teacher who instigates the school theatre sets out to prove that it is. But while the pupils rehearse Shakespeare’s tragedies and comedies under her ever-vigilant eye, Soviet life makes its brutal adjustments. This can be called a book about love, the tough kind of love that gets you through life, and death. Little Zinnobers is especially fascinating for British readers as we see Shakespeare’s famous sonnets and plays are touchingly brought to life by the Russian children and their gifted teacher, the novel’s heroine. The teacher applies some of the playwright’s satire to the socio-political situation of the USSR, using her English lessons to teach her students life’s broader lessons, too. Echoes of the Soviet Union can be felt in our own society today: the people find themselves increasingly at odds with the politicians’ hypocrisy, ‘big brother’ is watching us through thousands of CCTVs, and political correctness determines what we can and cannot say. It is these subtle undercurrents which help make Chizhova’s novel particularly pertinent to today’s readership. Apart from being a magnificently written, first-rate story, Little Zinnobers is unique in that it goes beyond the realm of politics or fiction to shed a new light on the relevance of British literary heritage today. Published with the support of the Institute for Literary Translation, Russia.

The Russian Medical Humanities

Author : Melissa L. Miller
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1498592163
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book The Russian Medical Humanities written by Melissa L. Miller and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-09-20 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time in English, The Russian Medical Humanities: Past and Present argues that the medical humanities is a vibrant and emerging field in Post-Soviet Russia. In a unique collaboration that brings together diverse experts from both Russia and America, this volume showcases the Russian medical humanities as an interdisciplinary project that combines insights from philosophy, bioethics, anthropology, history, and literature in order to provide more compassionate medical care to patients in the twenty-first century. The chapters in this volume explore past and present humanistic trends in Russian medical training, as well as examine how Russian authors and cultural figures, some physician-writers, some without professional background in medicine of any kind, have positioned healthy and ailing bodies in their creative work. This volume’s contributors, who range from literary scholars, educators, translators and poets to medical historians, librarians, museum curators, and social workers, provide empathetic insight into the experience of medical encounters which all cultures grapple with. Their work will prove useful not only to current and future health practitioners, but also to a broader audience of readers who are seeking to make compassionate and informed decisions about healthcare for their loved ones and for themselves.

Displacement and (Post)memory in Post-Soviet Women’s Writing

Author : Marja Sorvari
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 303095837X
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Displacement and (Post)memory in Post-Soviet Women’s Writing written by Marja Sorvari and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-04-22 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book examines prominent literary works from the past two decades by Russian women writers dealing with the Soviet past. It explores works such as Daniel Stein, Interpreter by Ludmilla Ulitskaya, The Time of Women by Elena Chizhova, Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets by Svetlana Alexievich, and In Memory of Memory by Maria Stepanova, and uncovers connecting thematic structures and features. Focusing on the concepts of displacement and postmemory, the book shows how these works have given voice to those on the margins of society and of ‘great history’ whose resistance was often silent. In doing so, these women writers portray the everyday experiences and trauma of displaced women and girls during the second half of the twentieth century. This study offers new insights into the importance of these women writers’ work in creating and preserving cultural memory in post-Soviet Russia.