Squaring the Circle: Short Stories By Winners of the Debut Prize - Couverture souple

 
9785717200868: Squaring the Circle: Short Stories By Winners of the Debut Prize
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ISBN 10 : 5717200862 ISBN 13 : 9785717200868
Editeur : Glas, 2010

Synopsis


Short stories by winners of the Debut Prize

This anthology presents Russian prose by a new generation. The authors, who come from various parts of Russia, never lived in the Soviet Union. They are free of the Soviet legacy. They have no nostalgia and do not resonate to the sort of art that attempts to turn everything Soviet into vintage chic. And unlike many older writers, they are not fighting the Soviet past. Why the title Squaring the Circle? The authors live in a system of multiple uncertainties. The problems that life poses them often have no solution. To solve what is insoluble, to do what is undoable: that is the demand made of a young person today by unpredictable Russian reality. Young people have no algorithms for building their lives and careers. There are no guarantees, but anything is possible. Theirs is a fundamentally new way of thinking, a new way of seeing the world.

Every year, the Debut receives up to 50,000 entries from every region of Russia, and around the world. It has shown that a person s life experience at any age is complete in and of itself. What a person knows about the world in his early 20s has been forgotten by the time he is 30. The Debut prompts them to commit to literature their unique experiences, what might be described as the shock of their first encounter with grown-up life. Today an unusually gifted generation is entering Russian literature. Literature has not seen such an influx of energy in a long time. Perhaps this change is an anthropological response to the difficult position of culture and literature. This new generation writing in Russian both the individual writers and the phenomenon as a whole deserves great attention.

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Présentation de l'éditeur


Short stories by winners of the Debut Prize

This anthology presents Russian prose by a new generation. The authors, who come from various parts of Russia, never lived in the Soviet Union. They are free of the Soviet legacy. They have no nostalgia and do not resonate to the sort of art that attempts to turn everything Soviet into vintage chic. And unlike many older writers, they are not fighting the Soviet past. Why the title Squaring the Circle? The authors live in a system of multiple uncertainties. The problems that life poses them often have no solution. To solve what is insoluble, to do what is undoable: that is the demand made of a young person today by unpredictable Russian reality. Young people have no algorithms for building their lives and careers. There are no guarantees, but anything is possible. Theirs is a fundamentally new way of thinking, a new way of seeing the world.

Every year, the Debut receives up to 50,000 entries from every region of Russia, and around the world. It has shown that a person s life experience at any age is complete in and of itself. What a person knows about the world in his early 20s has been forgotten by the time he is 30. The Debut prompts them to commit to literature their unique experiences, what might be described as the shock of their first encounter with grown-up life. Today an unusually gifted generation is entering Russian literature. Literature has not seen such an influx of energy in a long time. Perhaps this change is an anthropological response to the difficult position of culture and literature. This new generation writing in Russian both the individual writers and the phenomenon as a whole deserves great attention.

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Éditeur
Glas
Date d'édition
2010
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
5717200862
ISBN 13 
9785717200868
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
300
Éditeur
Slavnikova Olga, Perova Natasha
Coordonnées du fabricant
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