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Glas New Russian Writing
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Childhood
Автор: Bitov Жанр: Glas New Russian Writing Издательство: Glas New Russian Writing Год: 2008 Страниц: 224 Дата загрузки: 10 декабря 20102012-03-29
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In this collection, centred on the theme of Childhood, we offer two early stories by Andrei Bitov which reflect the growing awareness in children of life's mystery and beauty; a story by Andrei Platonov, bearing the stamp of his inimitable style; Ludmilla Ulitskaya's perspicacious insight into the complex relationship between twin sisters; an impressionistic story by Zufar Gareev about the torments of adolescence; Leonid Latynin's epic, set in pre-Christian Russia and giving us a glimpse of the dawn of Russian civilisation; Alan Cherchesov's account of an unusually bright Chechen boy living alone in a highland village in the Caucasus; Anatoly Pristavkin tells about childhood in a special orphanage for children of «enemies of the people»; and the latest Booker winners Andrei Sergeev and Sergei Gandlevsky.
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Stamp Album
Автор: Sergeev Andrei Жанр: Glas New Russian Writing Издательство: Glas New Russian Writing Год: 2008 Страниц: 240 Дата загрузки: 22 марта 20112011-02-19
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»Stamp Album» paints a picture of hitherto unknown «catacomb Russia». The communal apartment Sergeev describes is not a typical community of Soviet citizens... They neither fight the regime, nor adapt to it... Sergeev's memory seems to collect mere trifles: children's ditties, counting rhymes, old slogans, newspaper clippings, snatches of conversations, official documents, urban folklore and much else. He fishes various fragments out of this detritus and files them carefuUy away in his stamp album». Natalia Pervukhina in «Russkaya Mysl» Sergeev's extraordinary memory, the skill of a professional collector, his fantastic sharpness of vision, his passion for details and objects as well as for individuals — all these make «Stamp Album» fascinating reading».
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The Lair Collected Works
Автор: Latynin Leonid Жанр: Glas New Russian Writing Издательство: Glas New Russian Writing Год: 2008 Страниц: 320 Дата загрузки: 19 апреля 20122011-09-12
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Leonid Latynin was born in a small town on the Volga and raised by his old grandmother on old religious books and Russian folklore. Since childhood he has been fascinated with pre-Christian Russian culture, which found expression in his highly original novels. Latynin was trained as a philologist and has become an expert in pre-Christian Russian culture and Russian icons. Both of these interests are apparent in his fiction. The work of Leonid Latynin can hardly be classed with any existing literary trends or movements. Asked in an interview whether he had been associated with the literary underground back in Soviet times Latynin said that he existed on its margins, living alone like a hermit. He has several collections of poetry to his name, the novel «The Face-maker and the Muse», and the novel «The Russian Truth» in four books. «Sleeper at Harvest Time» (Book One of the tetralogy) was published in French by Flammarion, and in English by Zephyr Press.
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Il secondo cerchio
Жанр: Glas New Russian Writing Издательство: Glas New Russian Writing Год: 2013 Страниц: 224 Дата загрузки: 12 сентября 20182015-10-30
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»Il secondo cerchio» raccoglie quattro romanzi brevi di giovani scrittori russi che entrano da protagonisti nella realta e nella letteratura del loro paese. In comune hanno l'eta e il potente desiderio di raccontare un tempo di incertezze e mutamenti. Completamente estranei all'eredita sovietica, questi autori segnano un punto di svolta rispetto alla precedente generazione, che alla lotta contro il regime ha consacrato tutta la propria esperienza creativa. Non si pensi pero a un movimento o a una nuova avanguardia. I quattro sfuggono ai canoni letterari vecchi e nuovi: provengono da storie personali e contesti geografici diversi, propongono stilemi e tematiche originali e intendono fornire un'espressione letteraria riferita a un'esperienza unica, il trauma del primo impatto con la vita adulta. C'e il racconto di Alisa Ganieva, del Daghestan, incentrato sul meticciato culturale con l'Islam; l'on the road in autostop di Igor Savelyev per le strade della sconfinata provincia russa; l'ironica presa in giro della propaganda nel racconto di Aleksej Lukjanov; e ancora, finalmente, la vita quotidiana e l'amore di Anna Lavrinenko. Selezionati tra migliaia di proposte, questi lavori sono stati insigniti del premio Debut, istituito dalla fondazione Pokolenie; la loro prosa testimonia la nuova forza e il nuovo slancio della letteratura russa.
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Snow Germans
Автор: Vachedin D. Жанр: Glas New Russian Writing Издательство: Glas New Russian Writing Год: 2013 Страниц: 188 Дата загрузки: 27 октрября 20162015-10-31
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The novel is about displaced persons and their cultural and psychological problems in an alien society. It consists of monologues by several male and female protagonists – repatriated Russian Germans -- whose lives become entangled at a certain point in the country of law and order, where they suddenly realize that they feel more Russian than German. They find themselves culturally different from the locals and often fail to integrate in the local communities. On the other hand they have never felt quite at home in Russia. Germans were encouraged to settle in the Russian countryside from the times of Peter the Great. Over the centuries they tried to preserve their national culture and traditions, but in the 20th century, marked with two great wars which made them highly unpopular, when they started repatriating they found themselves foreigners in their cherished homeland. The characters exist in the cross-cultural space between Russia and Germany, a space populated by about three million Russian-speaking Germans, who will be quickly disappearing and will probably no longer be around in 50 years time. Dmitry Vachedin was born in 1982 in St Petersburg and moved to Germany with his parents in 1999. He graduated from Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz with a degree in Political Science and Slavic Studies. Currently he lives in Bonn and works as a journalist for Deutsche Welle. At the age of 25 he won the Debut Prize for his short stories. In 2010 his novel Snow Germans was nominated for the Russian Prize, and in 2012 he became the winner of the Russian Prize for his short stories.
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Russian Drama: Four Young Female Voices
Автор: Pulinovich Yaroslava Жанр: Glas New Russian Writing Издательство: Glas New Russian Writing Год: 2014 Страниц: 173 Дата загрузки: 27 апреля 20182015-06-21
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Noted for its fresh and positive approach, extraordinary vitality, and fearless acceptance of life in its good and bad manifestations, this book shows young Russians' minds and souls. The plays focus on the painful problem of neglected children abused or abandoned by alcoholic single mothers, and the children's thirst for the love and understanding they are not getting. The four young authors are winners of the top prizes for drama. Living in different parts of Russia (Siberia, the Urals, and the Volga) and writing in different styles, they share a deep interest in people's inner lives, following the tradition of Anton Chekhov.
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The Little Man
Автор: Liza Alexandrova-Zorina Жанр: Glas New Russian Writing Издательство: Glas New Russian Writing Год: 2014 Страниц: 284 Дата загрузки: 10 декабря 20162017-04-19
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Merciless and beautiful prose, pithy and precise... leaves no one unmoved. Ex Libris Real-life dialogues, vivid imagery, striking metaphors. Literary Russia A remarkable novel of social discontent written by a sure hand. SNOB Gangsters take complete control of an industrial town with its corrupt authorities, business, and police. Defending his daughter, the protagonist accidentally shoots the chief gangster and has to go into hiding, first among the homeless at the town garbage dump, and then in the forest among Saami deer-breeders. He becomes transformed from a little man into a people's avenger, killing the corrupt mayor and the chief of police. Through a series of tricky manipulations, a different person is accused of the serial murders in the interests of the new gangsters, who seize control of the town in the end.The setting — a town on the Kola Peninsula above the Arctic Circle where the author spent her formative years — is clearly meant as a portrait in miniature of all of Russia and expresses young people's social discontent. Action-packed and highly revealing, this novel abounds in interesting ethnographic details related to the indigenous Northern tribes of Saami and life in the Northern provinces. A finalist in two major literary contests, Debut and NOS, and winner of the Northern Star Prize, Liza Alexandrova-Zorina (b. 1984) is an outstanding spokeswoman for her generation and a prolific author. The Little Man is also coming out in France and Egypt.
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Yaroslavl Stories
Автор: Lavrinenko Anna Жанр: Glas New Russian Writing Издательство: Glas New Russian Writing Год: 2014 Страниц: 175 Дата загрузки: 11 июня 20162016-07-24
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A cycle of stories about the difficult process of coming of age: young people who see themselves as outcasts, oddballs, and freaks, and who grow up through some experience of love and loss. These Ugly Duckling — type stories are timeless and the author has managed to make them new again. They are united by the one thousand-year-old city of Yaroslavl, Russia, and provide a host of exciting details which go unseen by tourists: the real adventure begins where the tourist trail ends. Winner of the Debut and other prizes, Anna Lavrinenko (b. 1984) lives in Yaroslavl, Russia, the vivid backdrop for all her stories.
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Mission to Mars
Автор: Savelyev Igor Жанр: Glas New Russian Writing Издательство: Glas New Russian Writing Год: 2013 Страниц: 192 Дата загрузки: 16 мая 20162016-02-16
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Savelyev is a professional in a good sense: his language consists of energetic short sentences, abundance of well-chosen details, and recurrent juxtaposition of the fictional and the documentary. The novel is written masterfully, aptly phrased and rich in interesting details; it will look good in Volume One of his Collected Works a couple of decades from now. Afisha Mars symbolizes freedom and a daring goal, different for each character. One goes to America to break away from the humdrum provincial life. Other protagonists launch a campaign against a dishonest airline exploiting people's fear of flying by promising false guarantees of safety, for an extra price. The protest peters out after the arrests, sobering the young people's enthusiasm. Reports of actual plane crashes accompany the narrative, providing a frightening backdrop. New heroes of our times: confused and disillusioned young Russians growing up in conditions of wild capitalism and political stagnation. Throughout the novel reports of actual airplane crushes interfere matter-of-factly into the narrative, providing a frightening a refrain to the story and symbolically in tune with the characters' personal moral downfalls. The Martian theme is crowned by the seventy-five-year-old ex-cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova's letter to President Putin suggesting that she should be sent to Mars on a one-way mission for the glory of her homeland. Twenty-eight-year-old Igor Savelyev won many literary prizes for his masterful prose based on brilliant counterpoints. His stories have been translated into many languages.
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