Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: »As the narrative delivers glimpses of human life in bite-size chunks, [Asar] Eppel's extraordinary compassion and humor is revealed, combined with his Jewish sense of history and merciless insight into people's true natures» Good Book Guide «Unsentimental but humane, his spare realism penetrates daily life» The New York Times Book Review
Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Dramatic history of several generations of an upper-class family during the First World War and the Civil War in Russia
Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: These literary pieces by one of Russia's foremost essayists reflect the author's bi-culturalism – Russian and American civilizations are compared in their various manifestations. Genis is a shrewd and observant critic. His essays are dynamic, informative, and a joy to read.
Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: »[Larissa] Miller recalls what it was like to come of age as a Jewish girl during Stalin's anti-cosmopolitan campaigns and beyond... Despite the taunts and the insults, despite her feeling that pogroms could begin any moment, she remains resilient and undaunted». —The Forward
Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: Winner of four prizes, Hurramabad describes the eviction of Russians from Tajikistan and the national strife following the collapse of the USSR. A resident of Dushanbe, Andrei Volos witnessed the civil war with its insane destruction, ethnic hatred, bloody vengeance, ruthless struggle for power, and violent demonstrations instigated by cynical politicians.
Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: Rubinstein succeeds in arranging his fragmented text in such a clever way that they invariably trigger off a series of associations, even in the reader who fails to catch all the allusions weaved in by the author. Thus his texts begin to speak to any reader anywhere and in any language, but they speak in a different way.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: Death is a frequent presence in Ronshin's brilliantly crafted stories but it invariably appears in some funny guise, a toy character in a toy world of innocent violence. His characters often feel as if they themselves were not really real. In Ronshin's world the dead live side by side with the living without suspecting that they are dead.
Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: Selin belongs to that rare Chekhovian type of writer who tells a story not straightforwardly but through a series of carefully chosen and cleverly arranged vivid details. Perhaps Selin has even more in common with Gogol – he demonstrates the same kind of healthy humor and rich imagination. Some of his stories resemble video-clips and are just as visual.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: Owner of the Grass is about a disaster befalling a man in love with his own mirror reflection. Moving from the real to the surreal, she invites us to come with her into these two realities, which eventually turn out to be one, a place where the magic and the mundane merge.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: »Galina's ingenuity in weaving together numerous mythological allusions and literary parallels is astounding. Apart from the Hellenic, Jewish and Arabic myths, she introduces references to popular legends and modern superstitions.»—The Moscow Times Iramifications has all the cheeky comedy of Ilf and Petrov with a touch of Gogolian barminess.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: GLAS' third collection of top women writers includes some internationally known names (Ludmila Petrushevskaya, Svetlana Alexiyevich, Olga Slavnikova, Ludmila Ulitskaya) as well as some other noted women authors appearing for the first time in English (Nina Gorlanova, Margarita Sharapova, Natalia Smirnova, Anastasia Gosteva).
Скачать книгу (размер 1 340 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 264) Аннотация: Russia is a country rich in talent which as often gone unrecognized or been actively suppressed and its literary achievements have frequently been inaccessible to non-Russians. GLAS has been designed to bridge the cultural gap between East and West by providing translations which allow the best modern Russian writing to speak directly to the Western reader. The sources at our disposal are vast…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: This issue of Glas has a subtitle Soviet Grotesque and our subsequent numbers will follow a similar pattern, dealing with such themes as The Woman's View and The Jews in Russia. We hope this approach will increase our reader's enjoyment by offering them an integrated reading experience which gives us a clear insight into some aspect of life in Russia. The sense of the grotesque has a long and…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: Just as love is very much part of any human life, for the soviet citizen it was often accompanied by another powerful emotion--fear. For various reasons, as this collection shows, the two have always gone hand in hand in Russia. Here love is seen from various angles: the imprisonment of the first Soviet president's wife under Stalin (Razgon), homosexual love punishable by Soviet law (Kharitonov),…
Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: Bulgakov and Mandelstam never met and yet their lives had much in common. Both men were born in the same year, 1891, and both lives ended prematurely, crushed by the cruel totalitarian system. Mandelstam died in a Siberian gulag in December 1938, and Bulgakov 14 months later, in March 1940, from a terminal illness, probably brought on by unbearable stress and disillusionment. Despite their…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: The love-hate relationship between Jews and Russians dates back to the early 19th century as is testified by four essays in this issue, looking at this ages-old Russian problem from different angles.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Maybe time in itself does not exist at all, and there exists instead only a spider's web of endless histories and tales tracing patterns in the boundless and deafening deep of eternity? Maybe Time is but a means of retelling them and listening to them? Requiem for the Living is the life story of an orphan boy who grows up alone in a mountain village in the Caucasus and then leaves his home to…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: How was it possible that an entire country could live in mute fear? Why did Soviet intellectuals denounce each other and conspire with the authorities to brainwash ordinary people? Why did submarines sink and nuclear power stations explode in the Soviet Union? This collection contains stories by leading Russian writers Ludmila Petrushevskaya, Boris Yampolsky, Alexander Pokrovsky, Vladimir…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 013 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 200) Аннотация: A rediscovered classic Krzhizhanovsky was banned during his lifetime and only published in 1990s.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: The heroines range from a wide-eyed child to a 95-year-old sculptress in love with a man sixty years her junior, a noblewoman adrift in Moscow to an old lady forgotten in an abandoned village, from a gynaecologist to a fairytale princess... facing up to a world of illness, old age, death, madness, and men.