Tag Archives: Russian

Illarion and the Dwarf (Илларион и Карлик) by Vladimir Gubin

Posted on June 2, 2022 by The Untranslated

Vladimir Gubin has remained in the history of Russian literature as the author of one work, which he kept reworking and polishing for 15 years, from 1981 to 1996. I’d like to start my review with two dismissals of this … Continue reading →

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Interview with Max Lawton: on reading Russian literature, translating Sorokin, books in need of translation and retranslation, learning languages, and ambitious projects

Posted on March 1, 2022 by The Untranslated

We finished this interview a month ago when even in the worst nightmare I could not have conceived that the deranged Kremlin dictator would launch an open, full-scale invasion of Ukraine. If we were talking now, this conversation would definitely … Continue reading →

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Return to Egypt (Возвращение в Египет) by Vladimir Sharov

Posted on December 2, 2018 by The Untranslated

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 →

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