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Brother, you have another pair of boots, " Jaroslav Häek said to me, grabbing me by the sleeve. "How do you know?" "Yesterday you were in army boots, and today you've got civilian ones on. I'd buy those army boots off you." And in this way my high-laced boots, which I was given by the Austrian Red Cross way back in Beryozovka-za-Baikalom, came into Häek's possession. It was a silly thing to do. Not because I should have known that I wouldn't g...

Brother, you have another pair of boots, " Jaroslav Häek said to me, grabbing me by the sleeve. "How do you know?" "Yesterday you were in army boots, and today you've got civilian ones on. I'd buy those army boots off you." And in this way my high-laced boots, which I was given by the Austrian Red Cross way back in Beryozovka-za-Baikalom, came into Häek's possession. It was a silly thing to do. Not because I should have known that I wouldn't g...

The Witch of Konotop (written in 1833 and published in 1836-37) is a beloved, classic Ukrainian comic novella that is little known outside of Ukraine. Part of the reason for this has been the difficulty in translating its complex stylistic levels that range from archaic Old Church Slavonic to colorful, colloquial Ukrainian. It shares several stylistic similarities to Mykola Hohol's (aka Nikolai Gogol's) Ukrainian horror tales in Evenings on a ...

The Witch of Konotop (written in 1833 and published in 1836-37) is a beloved, classic Ukrainian comic novella that is little known outside of Ukraine. Part of the reason for this has been the difficulty in translating its complex stylistic levels that range from archaic Old Church Slavonic to colorful, colloquial Ukrainian. It shares several stylistic similarities to Mykola Hohol's (aka Nikolai Gogol's) Ukrainian horror tales in Evenings on a ...

Boryslav in Flames by Ivan Franko is a pioneering novel that depicts the rise of the labour movement in Western Ukraine. The story unfolds against the backdrop of the industrial revolution in the Austro-Hungarian Empire during the 1860s. As industry burgeons in Boryslav, a nascent working class emerges, inspired by socialist ideals - a unique phenomenon in mostly agrarian Galicia. Central to the narrative is Benedio, a lowly mason's assistan...

Boryslav in Flames by Ivan Franko is a pioneering novel that depicts the rise of the labour movement in Western Ukraine. The story unfolds against the backdrop of the industrial revolution in the Austro-Hungarian Empire during the 1860s. As industry burgeons in Boryslav, a nascent working class emerges, inspired by socialist ideals - a unique phenomenon in mostly agrarian Galicia. Central to the narrative is Benedio, a lowly mason's assistan...

He is young, intelligent, well educated, with patriotic sentiments. But certain misunderstandings oblige him to flee from Ukraine. For some reason, everything in his life builds up to a certain Russian scenario. So to what extent should one burden Ukrainians with the outcome of this Russian Story? Finding himself involuntarily identified with Pushkin's Eugene Onegin, the hero of the novel, Eugene Samarsky, becomes a 'superfluous man' in Ukrain...

Vijftig hoogtepunten uit de Russische literatuur is een standaardwerk met gedetailleerde samenvattingen en diepgaande analyses van de meest bekende werken uit de Russische literatuur (romans, novellen, dichtwerken, toneelstukken). In tegenstelling tot de meeste andere literatuurboeken is Vijftig hoogtepunten niet opgebouwd rond de auteurs maar rond hun werken. De twee delen beslaan samen een periode van anderhalve eeuw - van Jevgeni Onegin t...

International brigades of mice and rats join forces to defend the rodents of Poland, threatened with extermination at the paws of cats favoured by the ancient ruler King Popiel, a sybaritic, cowardly ruler… The Hag of Discord incites a vicious rivalry between monastic orders, which only the good monks' common devotion to… fortified spirits… is able to allay… The present translation of the mock epics of Poland's greatest figure of the Enlighten...

Sergei Tretyakov is one of those artists and intellectuals from the first half of the twentieth century whose name is known, but whose achievements are barely recognized. He seems curiously elusive. Who exactly was he? What did he do? A victim of Stalin's Great Terror, declared an 'enemy of the people', his works were 'disappeared' and his name forbidden to be mentioned. But he was at the very heart of avant-garde modernism. He collaborated wi...

A Burglar of the Better Sort offers, in the English translation of Charles S. Kraszewski, the entirety of Czy¿ewski's surviving literary output, from surrealistic plays like Donkey and Sun in Metamorphosis and his inimitable 'formistic poems' through the playful Christmas 'pastorals' - which so delighted Czes¿aw Mi¿osz - to his theoretical writings, which form the basis for his radically individual, shamanistic approach to literary creation. A...

The year is 1871. Prince von Ahrensburg, Austria's military attaché to St. Petersburg, has been killed in his own bed. The murder threatens diplomatic consequences for Russia so dire that they could alter the course of history. Leading the investigation into the high-ranking diplomat's death is Chief Inspector Ivan Putilin, but the Tsar has also called in the notorious Third Department - the much-feared secret police - on the suspicion that th...

Lee Mandel's historical novel Moryak revolves around the story of Lieutenant Stephen Morrison, a naval officer sent by President Theodore Roosevelt on a top-secret mission in 1905. Morrison's assignment is to work with British agent Sidney Reilly to kidnap Tsar Nicholas II and remove him from Russia before he can sabotage the upcoming Portsmouth Peace conference. The mission goes awry and Morrison is captured and sentenced to death. Through a ...

Rusland rond 1500. Grote plagen kondigen het einde van de wereld aan, terwijl grensoverschrijdende ontdekkingen Europa ongedachte perspectieven bieden. Een kruidendokter ervaart zijn eigen machteloosheid en gaat zwerven. Hij wordt een ander mens, meermalen zelfs: als heilige dwaas, pelgrim, monnik en ten slotte kluizenaar voelt hij zijn helende krachten groeien. Zijn naam verandert mee. Gaandeweg beginnen herinneringen, avonturen en visioenen,...

Vijftig hoogtepunten uit de Russische literatuur is een standaardwerk met gedetailleerde samenvattingen en diepgaande analyses van de meest bekende werken uit de Russische literatuur (romans, novellen, dichtwerken, toneelstukken). In tegenstelling tot de meeste andere literatuurboeken is Vijftig hoogtepunten niet opgebouwd rond de auteurs maar rond hun werken. De twee delen beslaan samen een periode van anderhalve eeuw - van Jevgeni Onegin t...

The central character in the gripping, psychological novel Duel is the Ukrainian intellectual Kost Horobenko. Set in the first years of the new Soviet Ukrainian state, the period of militant Communism, Horobenko, is forever duelling with his alter ego, the Ukrainian nationalist. This novel is one of a number of early works from the 1920s by Borys Antonenko-Davydovych, in which the writer tries to analyse the fate of intellectuals during the ...

Elena Dolgopyat was born and raised in the USSR, trained as a computer programmer in a Soviet military facility, and retrained as a cinematographer post-perestroika. Fusing her diverse experiences with her own sensitivities and preoccupations, and weaving throughout a colourful thread of magic realism, she has produced an unsettling group of fifteen stories all concerned in some way with the theme of estrangement. Elena herself, in an intervie...

Jan Kochanowski (1530-1584) is not only the greatest Polish poet before Adam Mickiewicz, he is also one of the great figures of the European Renaissance. Over the space of his rather brief life, he excelled in every literary genre he attempted: secular lyric poetry and religious hymns, drama, pithy satires in the vein of Martial, and translations from both the Bible and classical literature. While being the first major voice to shape the moder...

Vijftig hoogtepunten uit de Russische literatuur is een standaardwerk met gedetailleerde samenvattingen en diepgaande analyses van de meest bekende werken uit de Russische literatuur (romans, novellen, dichtwerken, toneelstukken). In tegenstelling tot de meeste andere literatuurboeken is Vijftig hoogtepunten niet opgebouwd rond de auteurs maar rond hun werken. De twee delen beslaan samen een periode van anderhalve eeuw - van Jevgeni Onegin t...

Enorme kudden vee zijn onder leiding van de hond Rex in opstand gekomen tegen de heerszuchtige mens. Onafzienbare massa's trekken richting het oosten, de opkomende zon tegemoet, naar een paradijselijk land van vrijheid en geluk, waar geen mens ooit een voet heeft gezet. Onderweg worden ze geconfronteerd met dieren uit de wildernis en overvallen door de meest extreme natuurverschijnselen en weersomstandigheden. Met wreed geweld en mooie b...