The Human Experience: Contemporary American & Soviet Fiction and Poetry

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Edité par Knopf/Khudozhestvennaya Literatura, 1989

0394570618 / 9780394570617

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New York. 1989. May 1989. Knopf/Khudozhestvennaya Literatura. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0394570618. Forewords by William Styron & Daniil Granin. 357 pages. hardcover. Jacket art by Irina Salnikova. keywords: Europe Russia Literature Translated America World Literature. DESCRIPTION - A historic publishing event, the first of its kind: an anthology published simultaneously in the United States and the Soviet Union that brings together forty brilliant and celebrated contemporary writers - half of them Americans, half of them Russians - in deeply felt stories and poems which provide glimpses of the life, the work, the play, the textures and humors of the two countries, giving us insight into how we differ, what we have in common. Pieces by Soviet and American writers are interspersed. The American contributors include Raymond Carver, Mary Gordon, Garrison Keillor, Adrienne Rich, John Updike, Alice Walker and Robert Penn Warren. Among the Soviet writers are Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Andrei Voznesensky, Bulat Okudzhava, Tatyana Tolstaya, Georgy Semyonov and Bella Akhmadulina. And moving between Soviet and American scenes, we have the pleasure of comparing the current voices of the two literatures and the diverse ways in which some of the best writers now working in either country perceive and deal with the universals that concern writers everywhere. Heralding in his foreword ‘the sense of revelation, of newness, that an American reader will have encountering some of the Soviet writers,' William Styron suggests how the anthology works to intensify our response to both American and Soviet writings: ‘The poetry and prose from both countries are marked by a variety and an eclectic spirit that is appropriate to a collection entitled The Human Experience. In Central Asia a man attending a conference becomes gradually bewitched by a chatterbox female colleague and experiences a sharp pang of loss when she suddenly de- parts. A man in New England, sifting through the detritus of an attic, discovers in the old games he discards a poignant metaphor of his broken marriage. In different ways, Valentin Rasputin's ‘French Lessons' and Joyce Carol Oates's ‘Capital Punishment' reveal a piercing alienation. A haunting counterpoint unites such stories as Anatoly Kim's ‘Road Stop in August' - a scenically evocative, troubling tale about a morally bedeviled soldier-prisoner and his superior officer - and John Sayles's ‘The Halfway Diner,' which deals in another way with prisoners. .There are other perspectives, other moods: the flamboyant assertiveness of Yevtushenko in his ‘Fuku' verse, for example, or the zany rapture of Donald Barthelme's ‘The King of jazz'. Within its relatively modest scope [The Human Experience] presents a fair and colorful sampling of the way life here and there is lived, or endured, or nervously confronted, or enjoyed.' It is the hope of everyone concerned with this anthology that its attempt to make new connections between two peoples through storytelling and poetry will capture the imagination of readers in America, the Soviet Union and around the world. inventory #12322.…

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Titre
The Human Experience: Contemporary American & Soviet Fiction and Poetry
Auteur
Soviet/American Joint Editorial Board Of The Quaker US/USSR Committee (editors)
Éditeur
Knopf/Khudozhestvennaya Literatura
Année de publication
1989
État de l'article
Very Good in Dustjacket
Jaquette
Very Good
Reliure
hardcover
Langue
anglais
ISBN à 10 chiffres
0394570618
ISBN à 13 chiffres
9780394570617
Édition
First Edition.

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