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Tag Archives: Russian
Return to Egypt (Возвращение в Египет) by Vladimir Sharov
Vladimir Sharov’s dense and voluminous novel, the winner of the 2014 Russian Booker Prize and a runner-up of the Big Book Award of the same year, is in many ways similar in its themes, ideas and obsessions with the much … Continue reading
Posted in Fiction, Reviews
Tagged A. A. Ivanov, Beguny, Chichikov, Dante, Dead Souls, Возвращение в Египет, Exodus, Kazimir Malevich, Nikolai Gogol, Old Believers, Return to Egypt, Russian, Tash Hauli Palace, The Appearance of Christ Before the People, The Divine Comedy, The Government Inspector, The Inspector General, Vladimir Sharov
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Outrageously Out of Print: Ten Books You Didn’t Even Know Existed in Translation
The heading is unapolagetically clickbaity as I sincerely hope that you do know about the existence of at least some of the titles listed below. The idea for the post cristallised after several occasions when I was planning to write … Continue reading
Posted in Lists
Tagged A Meditation, Abel Posse, An Invincible Memory, Argentine, Astrophobia, Austrian, Bomarzo, Brazilian, Greek, Heimito von Doderer, Italian, João Ubaldo Ribeiro, Juan Benet, Luigi Malerba, Manuel Mujica Láinez, Nikos Kazantzakis, Paolo Volponi, Russian, Sasha Sokolov, Spanish, The Burn, The Demons, The Dogs of Paradise, The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel, The Serpent, The Worldwide Machine, Vassily Aksyonov
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Dedicated to Piranesi (Посвящается Пиранези) by Joseph Brodsky
A while ago, my tweet about the Joseph Brodsky poem apparently recounting the conversation between the too tiny figures at the bottom of Piranesi’s famous etching provoked lively interest among my literary-minded followers. Apart from the highly original premise of … Continue reading