Russian literature
Russian satirist Vladimir Sorokin’s excremental vision triumphs in two new translations.
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Ludmila Ulitskaya’s stories are fatalistic in spirit, but not morose.
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“It’s easy to see why we have such a lousy life and such great literature.”
Read MoreIliazd is more interested in working through all the possible reasons that generate behavior rather than grappling with issues of morality.
Read MoreRapture is a worthwhile curio that grapples, entertainingly, with Modernism’s artistic, structural, and revolutionary quandaries.
Read MoreThe Man Between offers a fascinating glimpse of the late master translator Michael Henry Heim, its reportedly modest and reticent protagonist.
Read MoreMarian Schwartz’s careful translation of Anna Karenina is exquisitely mindful of the book’s complex linguistic texture.
Read MorePoet Mikhail Kuzmin, born in the 1870s into a family of Russian Old Believers, was a passionate exponent of gay literature in the early twentieth century.
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