Living a Life: Totally Absurd Tales - Couverture souple

Ronshin, Valery

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 5717200609 ISBN 13 : 9785717200608

Editeur : Northwestern University Press, 2003

Synopsis

"Real humor is always black," says Valery Ronshin, a highly imaginative and prolific writer whose work includes a strong elements of mysticism. His fresh and distinctive literary style recalls that of the 20th century Russian writers of the absurd such as Daniil Kharms. Ronshin's reality is necessarily absurd, sometimes silly. And always haunted by the grotesque, which may intrude at any moment. In the title story the somnolent watchman is a self-styled philosopher: "Because he had various philosophical thoughts. Mostly other people's. Trostnikov wrote them down. The first thought in the notebook was this: Life is a dream." The toy factory, where the watchman-philosopher works, turns out to be a top secret weapons plant. These absurd tales, grounded in the perverseness of present-day Russian reality are what Kharms might have written were he alive today.

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À propos de l?auteur

Born in 1962, Ronshin graduated with a degree in history from Petrozavodsk University in Karelia and went on to study at the Literature Institute in Moscow. He now lives in St Petersburg. He started writing relatively late but broke into top literary magazines almost immediately. Ronshin says that for the first thirty years he was "just living a life," moving from one provincial town to another and traveling on foot in Central Russia. He worked at different menial jobs and taught history for a spell before becoming a professional writer. Like Kharms, Ronshin is also a successful children's author with more than 20 books to his name. Unlike Kharms, he wrote the first detective novel for Russian children. Ronshin, whose children's stories appeal to grown-ups as well, considers that "a writer's job is to describe his age and die."

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Northwestern University Press
• Date d'édition: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 5717200609
• ISBN 13: 9785717200608
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 208
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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