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One of the first Russian writers to make a name for herself on the
Internet, Linor Goralik writes conversational short works that
conjure the absurd in all its forms, reflecting post-Soviet life
and daily universals. Her mastery of the minimal, including a wide
range of experiments in different forms of micro-prose, is on full
display in this collection of poems, stories, comics, a play, and
an interview, here translated for the first time. In Found Life,
speech, condensed to the extreme, captures a vivid picture of
fleeting interactions in a quickly moving world. Goralik's works
evoke an unconventional palette of moods and atmospheres-slight
doubt, subtle sadness, vague unease-through accumulation of
unexpected details and command over colloquial language. While
calling up a range of voices, her works are marked by a distinct
voice, simultaneously slightly naive and deeply ironic. She is a
keen observer of the female condition, recounting gendered
tribulations with awareness and amusement. From spiritual rabbits
and biblical zoos to poems about loss and comics about poetry,
Goralik's colorful language and pervasive dark comedy capture the
heights of absurdity and depths of grief.
One of the first Russian writers to make a name for herself on the
Internet, Linor Goralik writes conversational short works that
conjure the absurd in all its forms, reflecting post-Soviet life
and daily universals. Her mastery of the minimal, including a wide
range of experiments in different forms of micro-prose, is on full
display in this collection of poems, stories, comics, a play, and
an interview, here translated for the first time. In Found Life,
speech, condensed to the extreme, captures a vivid picture of
fleeting interactions in a quickly moving world. Goralik's works
evoke an unconventional palette of moods and atmospheres-slight
doubt, subtle sadness, vague unease-through accumulation of
unexpected details and command over colloquial language. While
calling up a range of voices, her works are marked by a distinct
voice, simultaneously slightly naive and deeply ironic. She is a
keen observer of the female condition, recounting gendered
tribulations with awareness and amusement. From spiritual rabbits
and biblical zoos to poems about loss and comics about poetry,
Goralik's colorful language and pervasive dark comedy capture the
heights of absurdity and depths of grief.
Yuri Tynianov was a key figure of Russian Formalism, an
intellectual movement in early 20th century Russia that also
included Viktor Shklovsky and Roman Jakobson. Tynianov developed a
groundbreaking conceptualization of literature as a system
within-and in constant interaction with-other cultural and social
systems. His essays on Russian literary classics, like Pushkin's
Eugene Onegin and works by Dostoevsky and Gogol, as well as on the
emerging art form of filmmaking, provide insight into the ways art
and literature evolve and adapt new forms of expression. Although
Tynianov was first a scholar of Russian literature, his ideas
transcend the boundaries of any one genre or national tradition.
Permanent Evolution gathers together for the first time Tynianov's
seminal articles on literary theory and film, including several
articles never before translated into English.
Yuri Tynianov was a key figure of Russian Formalism, an
intellectual movement in early 20th century Russia that also
included Viktor Shklovsky and Roman Jakobson. Tynianov developed a
groundbreaking conceptualization of literature as a system
within-and in constant interaction with-other cultural and social
systems. His essays on Russian literary classics, like Pushkin's
Eugene Onegin and works by Dostoevsky and Gogol, as well as on the
emerging art form of filmmaking, provide insight into the ways art
and literature evolve and adapt new forms of expression. Although
Tynianov was first a scholar of Russian literature, his ideas
transcend the boundaries of any one genre or national tradition.
Permanent Evolution gathers together for the first time Tynianov's
seminal articles on literary theory and film, including several
articles never before translated into English.
Andrei Egunov-Nikolev's Beyond Tula is an uproarious romp through
the earnestly boring and unintentionally campy world of early
Soviet "production" prose, with its celebration of robust workers
heroically building socialism. Combining burlesque absurdism and
lofty references to classical and Russian High Modernist literature
with a rather tongue-in-cheek plot about the struggles of an
industrializing rural proletariat, this "Soviet pastoral" actually
appeared in the official press in 1931 (though it was quickly
removed from circulation). As a renegade classics scholar, Egunov
was aware of the expressive potential latent in so-called "light
genres"-Beyond Tula is a modernist pastoral jaunt that leaves the
reader with plenty to ponder.
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