Russian Stories - Brossura

Seres, Francesc

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0857051598 ISBN 13: 9780857051592

Casa editrice: MacLehose Press, 2013

Riassunto

Drift through outer space with a doomed cosmonaut whose engine is 'kaput!'; return to an irradiated village with an elderly couple who want to go home; ask yourself, did Elvis really play a concert in Red Square? Twenty-one impish and irrepressible stories by five neglected or forgotten Russian writers. Fresh-faced vignettes from modern St Petersburg; hair-raising tales of state insanity, snatched from the Soviet archives; dark fables from the days of serfdom, when the land was untamed and life was brutish and short. Each mines a discrete facet of Russian life, history or culture, and taken as a whole they sketch a historical arc from the nineteenth century to the age of the budget airline, offering the reader a unique combination of daring, wit, dash and charm.

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Recensione:

'A restless and indefatigable writer who reinvents himself with each book' Vinenc Pages, El Periódico de Catalunya. (Vinenc Pages, El Periódico de Catalunya)

'A work that belongs to the highest literature' Xavier Pla, AVUI. (AVUI)

L'autore:

Francesc Serés is a Catalan writer, born in Saidí, Aragon in 1972. He studied Fine Arts and Anthropology at the Universitat de Barcelona and now works as a professor of art history. His novels, short stories and plays have been translated into Spanish and other European languages.

PETER BUSH is an academic and translator of French, Catalan, Portugueseand Spanish. He has previously translated works by Federico Garcia Lorca, PedroAlmodóvar and Joan Sales. He was awarded La Creu de Sant Jordi for histranslation and promotion of Catalan literature in 2015.

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• Editore: MacLehose Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0857051598
• ISBN 13: 9780857051592
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 224