Knopf: First Edition, 2003. — 768 c. — ISBN10: 1400041104, ISBN13: 978-1400041107. Pushkin is Russia’s greatest and best-loved poet: a romantic, enigmatic figure who, during a brief but turbulent life, changed Russian literature forever with his vital and passionate verse. Many of his works — including The Bronze Horseman, The Queen of Spades, and his extraordinary novel in...
Knopf: First Edition, 2003. — 768 c. — ISBN10: 1400041104, ISBN13: 978-1400041107. Pushkin is Russia’s greatest and best-loved poet: a romantic, enigmatic figure who, during a brief but turbulent life, changed Russian literature forever with his vital and passionate verse. Many of his works — including The Bronze Horseman, The Queen of Spades, and his extraordinary novel in...
New York: Picador, 2015 — 352 p. — ISBN10: 1250074835; ISBN13: 978-1250074836. Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times and The Guardian (London) This is how Emmanuel Carrère, the magnetic journalist, novelist, filmmaker, and chameleon, describes his subject: "Limonov is not a fictional character. There. I know him. He has been a young punk in Ukraine, the idol of...
Enitharmon Press, 2016. — 234 p. — ISBN10: 1910392162, ISBN13: 978-1910392164. This groundbreaking collection draws together for the first time Vladimir Mayakovsky's key translators from the 1930s to the present day, bringing some remarkable works back into print in the process and introducing poems which have never before been translated. The radical scope of its...
Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2013. — 420 p. — ISBN10: 1618112805; ISBN13: 978-1618112804 — (Ars Rossica) After Evgeny Zamiatin emigrated from the USSR in 1931, he was systematically airbrushed out of Soviet literary history, despite the central role he had played in the cultural life of Russia’s northern capital for nearly twenty years. Since the collapse of the Soviet...
Paris: UNESCO, 1960. — 36 p. En este año se celebra el centenario del nacimiento del gran dramaturgo y cuentista ruso Antón Pavlovich Chejov. Nacido el 17 de enero de 1860 en Taganrog, a orillas del Mar de Azov, vivió una vida creadora relativamente corta, ya que falleció a la edad de 44 años. Sin embargo, las obras que produjo han sido suficientes para colocarle entre las...
Pen and Sword Military, 2012. — 464 p. Vasily Grossman (1905-64), one of the greatest authors of the twentieth century, served for over 1,000 days with the Red Army as a war correspondent on the Eastern front. He was present during the street-fighting at Stalingrad, and his 1944 report "The Hell of Treblinka", was the first eyewitness account of a Nazi death camp. Though he...
HarperCollins Publishers, 2017. — 320 c. — ASIN B01F1WTB8I. The heartbreaking story of the love affair between Boris Pasternak, the author of Doctor Zhivago, and Olga Ivinskaya — the true tragedy behind the timeless classic When Stalin came into power in 1924, the Communist government began persecuting dissident writers. Though Stalin spared the life of Boris Pasternak — whose...
HarperCollins Publishers, 2017. — 320 c. — ASIN B01F1WTB8I. The heartbreaking story of the love affair between Boris Pasternak, the author of Doctor Zhivago, and Olga Ivinskaya — the true tragedy behind the timeless classic When Stalin came into power in 1924, the Communist government began persecuting dissident writers. Though Stalin spared the life of Boris Pasternak — whose...
Yale University Press, 2019. — 424 p. If Vasily Grossman’s 1961 masterpiece, Life and Fate , had been published during his lifetime, it would have reached the world together with Pasternak’s Doctor Zhivago and before Solzhenitsyn’s Gulag . But Life and Fate was seized by the KGB. When it emerged posthumously, decades later, it was recognized as the War and Peace of the...
New York: Random, 1999. A book about Vladimir Nabokov's wife, Vera Nabokova (Slonim). Vladimir and Vera Nabokov, two names that are forever entwined together in history, seem to be the original power couple in modern times, as evidenced by Stacy Schiff's incredible, highly-researched biography. Even more striking is the fact that they were a powerful couple only in the literary...
The University of Wisconsin Press, 2010, 292 p. ISBN: 978-0-299-23633-5 Expelled from the Soviet Union in 1972 and honored with the Nobel Prize fifteen years later, poet Joseph Brodsky in many ways fit the grand tradition of exiled writer. But Brodsky’s years of exile did not render him immobile: though he never returned to his beloved Leningrad, he was free to travel the world...
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