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Of the thirty volumes in the authoritative Academy edition of
Chekhov's collected works, fully twelve are devoted to the writer's
letters. This is the first book in English or Russian addressing
this substantial-though until now neglected-epistolary corpus. The
majority of the essays gathered here represent new contributions by
the world's major Chekhov scholars, written especially for this
volume, or classics of Russian criticism appearing in English for
the first time. The introduction addresses the role of letters in
Chekhov's life and characterizes the writer's key epistolary
concerns. After a series of essays addressing publication history,
translation, and problems of censorship, scholars analyze the
letters' generic qualities that draw upon, variously, prose,
poetry, and drama. Individual thematic studies focus on the letters
as documents reflecting biographical, cultural, and philosophical
issues. The book culminates in a collection of short, at times
lyrical, essays by eminent scholars and writers addressing a
particularly memorable Chekhov letter. Chekhov's Letters appeals to
scholars, writers, and theater professionals, as well to a general
audience.
From political fictionalist Alisa Ganieva: a neo-noir portrait of a
legal system in which everything is broken and no one is innocent.
Offended Sensibilities chronicles a series of sudden deaths that
occur among officials of a provincial Russian town. The events
follow a notorious blasphemy law banning forms of expression that
offend the sensibilities of religious believers - a law passed
after Pussy Riot's infamous 2013 church-side protest that resulted
in their arrest. With this novel, Ganieva moves beyond the
Dagestani setting of her previous award-winning books, published in
English by Deep Vellum: The Mountain and the Wall and Bride and
Groom. In Offended Sensibilities, Ganieva seeks to address
nationalism, Orthodox religiosity, sexuality, and political
corruption. Suffused with a light touch and at times rollicking
sense of humor, this timely, entertaining and thought-provoking
novel can be read as an allegory for the current political, social,
religious, and cultural climate in Russia today.
Of the thirty volumes in the authoritative Academy edition of
Chekhov's collected works, fully twelve are devoted to the writer's
letters. This is the first book in English or Russian addressing
this substantial-though until now neglected-epistolary corpus. The
majority of the essays gathered here represent new contributions by
the world's major Chekhov scholars, written especially for this
volume, or classics of Russian criticism appearing in English for
the first time. The introduction addresses the role of letters in
Chekhov's life and characterizes the writer's key epistolary
concerns. After a series of essays addressing publication history,
translation, and problems of censorship, scholars analyze the
letters' generic qualities that draw upon, variously, prose,
poetry, and drama. Individual thematic studies focus on the letters
as documents reflecting biographical, cultural, and philosophical
issues. The book culminates in a collection of short, at times
lyrical, essays by eminent scholars and writers addressing a
particularly memorable Chekhov letter. Chekhov's Letters appeals to
scholars, writers, and theater professionals, as well to a general
audience.
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Bride and Groom (Paperback)
Alisa Ganieva; Translated by Carol Apollonio
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One of The Globe and Mail's Top 100 Books of 2018 One of World
Literature Today's Notable Translations of 2018 One of the Asian
Book Review's Best Books of 2018 From one of the most exciting
voices in modern Russian literature, Alisa Ganieva, comes Bride and
Groom, the tumultuous love story of two young city-dwellers who
meet when they return home to their families in rural Dagestan.
When traditional family expectations and increasing religious and
cultural tension threaten to shatter their bond, Marat and Patya
struggle to overcome obstacles determined to keep them apart, while
fate seems destined to keep them together—until the very end.
When Fyodor Dostoevsky proclaims that he is a ""realist in a higher
sense,"" it is because the facts are irrelevant to his truth. And
it is in this spirit that Apollonio approaches Dostoevsky's work,
reading through the facts-the text-of his canonical novels for the
deeper truth that they distort, mask, and, ultimately, disclose.
This sort of reading against the grain is, Apollonio suggests,
precisely what these works, with their emphasis on the hidden and
the private and their narrative reliance on secrecy and slander,
demand. In each work Apollonio focuses on one character or theme
caught in the compromising, self-serving, or distorting narrative
lens. Who, she asks, really exploits whom in Poor Folk? Does
""White Nights"" ever escape the dream state? What is actually
lost-and what is won-in The Gambler? Is Svidrigailov, of such ill
repute in Crime and Punishment, in fact an exemplar of generosity
and truth? Who, in Demons, is truly demonic? Here we see how
Dostoevsky has crafted his novels to help us see these distorting
filters and develop the critical skills to resist their anaesthetic
effect. Apollonio's readings show how Dostoevsky's paradoxes
counter and usurp our comfortable assumptions about the way the
world is and offer access to a deeper, immanent essence. His works
gain power when we read beyond the primitive logic of external
appearances and recognize the deeper life of the text.
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