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Tag Archives: Vladimir Sharov
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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Forthcoming: The Rehearsals by Vladimir Sharov
In 1656, at the behest of Patriarch Nikon of Moscow, the building of a life-size replica of Jerusalem began on the bank of the river Istra. The trees were cut down and tonnes of additional earth brought in to fashion … Continue reading
Posted in Fiction, Forthcoming Translations
Tagged Russian, The Rehearsals, Vladimir Sharov
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The Virtuosi: Five Translators Whose Names are Hallmarks of Quality
I have to confess that I don’t read works in English translation that often. The main reason is neither my language purism nor snobbishness but the prosaic lack of time: in order to maintain seven reading languages besides my native … Continue reading
Posted in Lists
Tagged Adrian Nathan West, Before and During, Brendan Riley, Charlotte Mandell, Compass, Isabel Fargo Cole, Josef Winkler, Luis Goytisolo, Mathias Énard, Natura Morta, Old Rendering Plant, Oliver Ready, Recounting: Antagony Book I, The Rehearsals, translators, Vladimir Sharov, Wolfgang Hilbig
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