Download or read book Shamara and Other Stories written by Svetlana Vladimirovna Vasilenko and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection features Svetlana Vasilenko's novel Little Fool, nominated for the Russian Booker Prize. Rich in folklore, legend, and history, the story follows the transformation of Ganna, a girl from the Volga shores, into a modern-day Madonna. Also included are the novella "Shamara" and several short stories, including the acclaimed "Going After Goat Antelopes."
Download or read book And Other Stories written by Georgi Gospodinov and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2007-07-27 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories within stories, a few contemporary fables, a hint of the narrative complexity of Borges, a whiff of the gritty realism of pre- and post-communist life in Eastern Europe - these are the elements that come together in a unique and surprising way in the wildly imaginative and endlessly engaging short stories of Georgi Gospodinov. Whether a tongue-in-cheek crime/horror story or the Christmas story of a pig, a language game leading to an unexpected epiphany or an inward-looking tale built on the complexity of a puzzle box, the work in this collection offers a kaleidoscopic experience of a writer whose style has been described as anarchic, experimental (New Yorker) and compulsively readable (New York Times). Gospodinov's debut prose work Natural Novel was hailed as a go-for-broke postmodern construction - a devilish jam of jump-cut narration, pop culture riffs, wholesale quotation, and Chinese-box authorship (Village Voice). At once familiar and fantastic, his writing is high comedy, high seriousness, and of very high order.
Download or read book The Prophecy and Other Stories written by Drago Jancar and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2009-03-05 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These newly collected short stories reveal a master at the top of his game. Drago Jancar possesses an acute understanding of the human psyche, enabling his stories to resonate beyond their particular milieu. This collection features seven pieces, drawn from four different collections, that together present the struggle of individuals against powerful forces. The characters try to make sense of a world of shifting borders and changing names that make the idea of a "homeland"—either literal or figurative—a dream rather than a reality.
Download or read book Russian Literature 1995 2002 written by N. N. Shneidman and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the many challenges besetting it, Shneidman argues convincingly that literary activity in Russia continues to be dynamic and vibrant.
Download or read book The Prose of Life written by Benjamin M. Sutcliffe and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2009-04-13 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Both before and after the collapse of the Soviet Union, everyday life and the domestic sphere served as an ideological battleground, simultaneously threatening Stalinist control and challenging traditional Russian gender norms that had been shaken by the Second World War. The Prose of Life examines how six female authors employed images of daily life to depict women’s experience in Russian culture from the 1960s to the present. Byt, a term connoting both the everyday and its many petty problems, is an enduring yet neglected theme in Russian literature: its very ordinariness causes many critics to ignore it. Benjamin Sutcliffe’s study is the first sustained examination of how and why everyday life as a literary and philosophical category catalyzed the development of post-Stalinist Russian women’s prose, particularly since the collapse of the Soviet Union. A focus on the representation of everyday life in women’s prose reveals that a first generation of female writers (Natal’ia Baranskaia, Irina Grekova) both legitimated and limited their successors (Liudmila Petrushevskaia, Tat’iana Tolstaia, Liudmila Ulitskaia, and Svetlana Vasilenko) in their choice of literary topics. The Prose of Life traces the development, and intriguing ruptures, of recent Russian women’s prose, becoming a must-read for readers interested in Russian literature and gender studies. 2009 Outstanding Academic Title, Choice Magazine
Download or read book A History of Women s Writing in Russia written by Adele Marie Barker and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-07-11 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A History of Women's Writing in Russia offers a comprehensive account of the lives and works of Russia's women writers. Based on original and archival research, this volume forces a re-examination of many of the traditionally held assumptions about Russian literature and women's role in the tradition. In setting about the process of reintegrating women writers into the history of Russian literature, contributors have addressed the often surprising contexts within which women's writing has been produced. Chapters reveal a flourishing literary tradition where none was thought to exist. They redraw the map defining Russia's literary periods, they look at how Russia's women writers articulated their own experience, and they reassess their relationship to the dominant male tradition. The volume is supported by extensive reference features including a bibliography and guide to writers and their works.
Download or read book City of Ash written by Eugenijus Ališanka and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the title of this sensitive collection refers to Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, City of Ash serves as a universal geography of the contemporary soul in an urban context. Through his poetry, Eugenijus Alisanka searches for personal and historical meaning within the framework of time, recognizing both the demands of the self and the impossibility of avoiding what came before, whether human or cultural.
Download or read book Bait written by David Albahari and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2001-06-20 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Albahari is one of the most prominent writers to emerge from the former Yugoslavia in the last twenty years. His serious, understated explorations of the self have influenced many writers of his native land's younger generation. The narrator of Bait has just exiled himself to Canada after the collapse of Yugoslavia and the death of his mother. As he listens to a series of audio tapes recorded by the mother years before, the narrator ponders her life and their relationship while simultaneously trying to come to terms with a new life of his own-one of exile and the confusion of a new language and culture. Bait is an exquisitely crafted novel that exhibits the wit and raw honesty Albahari's readers have long admired.
Download or read book Border State written by Emil Tode and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2000-05 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At home in neither his native land nor his adopted contry, the unnamed narrator writes from a border state that transcends national boundaries. his letter, this novel, is a precise description of that state, of a consciousness forged by poverty and oppression. Driven by the need to confess, the narrator recounts the circumstances surrounding his murder of his wealth lover. His confession serves as a painfully sharp rendering of what it means to straddle the lines between East and West, rich and poor, and light and dark. --From publisher description.
Download or read book Time Gifts written by Zoran Zivkovic and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2000-08-22 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zoran Zivkovic weaves four mysterious encounters around philosophical questions at the core of human existence. Provocative and original, Time Gifts is a meditation on the nature of time and, especially, on the nature of those at its mercy.
Download or read book Politicizing Magic written by Marina Balina and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2005-10-25 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description
Download or read book Short Story Index written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 990 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Second Book written by Muharem Bazdulj and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of linked stories featuring historical and fictional characters.
Download or read book The Third Shore written by Agata Schwartz and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2006-02-03 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of prose, selected by the editors, written by women authors from countries that were previously referred to as Eastern Europe, who were born after 1945 and had their texts published after 1989.
Download or read book The Grand Prize and Other Stories written by Daniela Crăsnaru and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description
Download or read book Fire on Water written by Arnost Lustig and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2006-03-10 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this pair of short novels, The Abyss and The Porgress, Arnost Lustig continues his lifelong project of creating a universe--at once concrete and dreamlike--to examine the horrors of the Holocaust and the impossible burden of living as a survivor.
Download or read book A Land the Size of Binoculars written by Игорь Клех and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2004-08-27 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Igor Klekh writes from the crossroads of Europe: Ukraine, influenced by the Russian literature tradition of the east and the languages and dialects of both Central Europe and his native country. As one of the brightest lights to come out of the post-perestroika literary scene, Klekh's work has been welcomed as a synthesis of the two traditions, and celebrated as some of the most breathtakingly original prose of recent years. The publication of his novella Kallimakh's Wake (included in this collection) in 1993, and his work since, has drawn comparisons to Borges-for the blurring of boundaries between forms and styles; to Gogol's work in both Russian and Ukrainian langua≥ to Eco's use of esoteric knowled≥ and to the stylistic innovations reminiscent of Latin American magical realists. A Land the Size of Binoculars collects the five short pieces and novella that comprise his "Galician Motifs," and two more recent novellas. Throughout Klekh passes over landscapes as intimate as the terrain between fathers and sons and as broad as the Carpathian Mountains.
