Booker Winners and Others - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0939010437 ISBN 13 : 9780939010431

Editeur : Zephyr Press, 1998

Synopsis

Book by Perova Natasha

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

"GLAS gives us a sense of Russian literature in motion. If it cannot perhaps mercifully convey fully what it is like to live in Russia at present, GLAS at least gives us a taste of what it is to be a reader there."- Times Literary Supplement

Extracts from the novels shortlisted for the Booker Russian Novel Prize, including the winner, Vladimir Makanin's Baize-covered Table with Decanter; Semyon Lipkin's tale of Odessa, A Resident Remembers; Victor Astafiev's story of the plight of young conscripts in the Second World War, The Cursed and the Slain; Oleg Yermakov's <>The Sign of the Beast about Afghanistan.

Others include the new crop of Russia's writers of the absurd: Victor Pelevin, Alexei Slapovsky, Valery Ronshin and Zufar Gareev, writers following the currently fashionable grotesque style. An interesting aspect of this issue is that most writers featured live in the provinces or are recent newcomers to the capital.

Revue de presse :

"Booker Winners and Others is indispensible for anyone interested in contemporary Russian fiction. Read in its entirety it provides a fascinating picture of Russian letters today, and an absorbing, if somewhat disturbing psychological portrait of a society in disarray."
The Moscow Times

Glas has become almost disturbingly indispensable. The texts and voices out of Russia come through with formidable insistence.
--George Steiner

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Zephyr Press
• Date d'édition: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0939010437
• ISBN 13: 9780939010431
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 248