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Andrejevs actieve periode als schrijver besloeg zo'n twintig jaar in een tumultueuze periode van de geschiedenis van Rusland. De vertwijfeling en de onzekerheid die de oorlog en de revolutie met zich meebrachten beïnvloedden in zijn werk. Thema's als de tragiek van eenzaamheid, angst voor de dood, existentiële vertwijfeling en vormen van waanzin en hysterie, die zich veelal in een ziekenhuis of op het sterfbed afspeelden, zijn niet weg te denk...

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...

Somewhere in the cosmos there are happier places, ' muses Martin Vrána, the hero of Jan Balabán's novel Where was the Angel Going?. 'People are transported to the planet Earth for punishment. Part of the punishment is their ignorance of the fact. We've forgotten that we've forgotten.' Yet, as this very reflection implies, in Martin's case, part of his 'punishment' is his ever-present memory of an Eden from which he had been expelled. The proto...

Moscow, during the collapse of the Soviet system: In a hospital, young people awaiting heart operations and possible death, live just for today with mischief-making and even love affairs, under the stringent gaze of the old matron, Baba Nastya. Here one of the patients, a young Turkmen, meets a Greek Comsomol boy, a Russian Stalinist with a 'robotic' heart, and the lovely but tragic Mary. To whom does the future belong - to the soulless robots...

Mebet concerns a man of the taiga, a hunter, in a moving narrative that blends ethnographic detail, indigenous mythology, and the snowy landscapes of the Arctic. The protagonist is a Nenets, a member of one of the peoples who call far northern Russia home. Dubbed "The Gods' Favorite" for his seeming imperviousness to harm or grief, Mebet earns the envy and derision of his fellow tribesmen. He lives that carefree and blessed life until his old ...

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...

The year 2022 has been designated the Year of Romanticism in Poland. An even two hundred years have passed since the first publication of Adam Mickiewicz's Ballads and Romances - a collection of lyrics which has the same significance for Polish literature as Wordsworth and Coleridge's Lyrical Ballads has for the English. Poems of love, the supernatural, and the exotic, Mickiewicz's first volume of poetry achieved a level of sublimity tha...

Two conjoined babies are born at the intersection of two social worldviews. The girls are named Faith and Hope. After spending their childhood in a foster home and obtaining a basic education, they come to realise that they are different from other people in many respects. The problems of their upbringing are only made worse by the constant humiliations they suffer at the hands of society. Eventually, fortune smiles on them, by seemingly open...

Girls, be good" is an omnibus novel that consists of twenty short stories connected by a single framing narrative: just after the fall of the Berlin wall, foreign investors feel good about the investment climate in Eastern Europe and decide to open a huge toy factory in ex-Yugoslavia, where they are going to produce a hit range of toys designed for girls: small, plush lemurs called Aya, that will be sold all over the world. Before long, though...

Maria Konjoekova's Zo gaat dat in Rusland, of hoe te leven tussen Russen is een grappige, vol zelfspot geschreven handleiding voor het dagelijks leven in Rusland. Het is daarnaast een praktische gids voor het doorgronden van een land en zijn mensen, die we vandaag de dag overal ter wereld kunnen tegenkomen. Waar komen onze meningen en vooroordelen eigenlijk vandaan? De schrijfster verkent de culturele eigenaardigheden waarvan het Russische l...

Andrejevs actieve periode als schrijver besloeg zo'n twintig jaar in een tumultueuze periode van de geschiedenis van Rusland. Hij ondersteunde de eerste Russische Revolutie daadwerkelijk en kwam voor het verbergen van medeplichtigen en het organiseren van geheime bijeenkomsten in de gevangenis terecht. Toen in 1907 de reactie op de revolutie kwam, nam de schrijver afstand van alle revolutionaire opvattingen, omdat volgens hem de opstand van de...

This collection comprises works of Natalka Bilotserkivets from different years. A passionate intensity moves through the subjective, intimate voice of the poems of Natalka Bilotserkivets. Through translation, Subterranean Fire continues their mysterious pilgrimage to their second lives. From one of the true inheritors - touchstones like Anna Akhmatova, Gabriela Mistral, and Louise Bogan - the poems of Bilotserkivets inhabit us as they include...

Maria Konjoekova's Zo gaat dat in Rusland, of hoe te leven tussen Russen is een grappige, vol zelfspot geschreven handleiding voor het dagelijks leven in Rusland. Het is daarnaast een praktische gids voor het doorgronden van een land en zijn mensen, die we vandaag de dag overal ter wereld kunnen tegenkomen. Waar komen onze meningen en vooroordelen eigenlijk vandaan? De schrijfster verkent de culturele eigenaardigheden waarvan het Russische l...

A young boy from the housing estates comes across a copse of old oaks to which he can escape, as to an oasis of calm. Although he may forget about it once he becomes an adult and "puts aside the things of childhood, " it will remain a locus of balance, decades later, for a single mother struggling with the difficulties of raising the child she loves. A husband, on the lip of an ugly divorce, drives across town in the middle of the night to res...

Sr¿an Srdi¿'s collection of short stories, Combustions, establishes this author's position as one of the best prose writers in Serbia and across the region. This book consists of nine stories in which the author brings the reader face to face with the seamy side of everyday life, where, somewhere in the province, hopelessness and despair of the endless Balkan transition meet one another in the most radical way. Devoid of illusions of social...

Vladimir Poetin (Vladimir Putin), die in maart 2012 voor de derde keer tot president van Rusland werd verkozen, is veruit de meest invloedrijke en mysterieuze politicus ter wereld. Hoewel hij al lange tijd wereldwijd in de belangstelling staat, was een gedegen biografie van Poetin tot nog toe moeilijk te vinden. Poetin is een diepgaand, persoonlijk relaas over het leven van de president, waarvoor de auteurs zes jaar lang zorgvuldig onderzoek h...

For those who have a great desire to learn how to make their home comfortable and aesthetically appealing, so that they always want to return there. "The modern world of achievements and propaganda of total busyness robs many people of their inner right to have time for themselves, time to recharge. A favorite cup, a cozy chair, a family dinner from grandma's dinnerware set and in the evening - dim light, candles, quiet music and sweet goodnig...

The world's really not the way it is, ' says the eponymous Psychiatrist in Andrzej Kotäski's wildly popular Poems about my Psychiatrist, 'it's not what it seems to us to be / to tell the truth / the world doesn't actually exist.' This is problematical, to say the least. The world doesn't exist? Well, here I am, and here is this book, real paper, which I hold in my real hands. If you're confused, don't expect much help to come from the book its...

We experience Orthodox Joy most prayerfully and powerfully during the Divine Liturgy. Focusing on seven virtues, this book offers practical advice for our daily journey by calling us to strive towards living a different virtue every day. After receiving the Eucharist with a deep and abiding joy during Mass, our most joyful union and communion with God, we dedicate each day of the week to these virtues: Monday, Humility, Tuesday, Purity, Wednes...

Don't give up! I'll help you!" barks Rex, the hero of W¿adys¿aw Reymont's Revolt of the Animals (1924), "carried away with wrath and compassion" at the sight of his friend the old donkey with "his head covered in a hempen sack, being whipped by boys harrying him towards a pit of lime." Who would not be roused to a righteous indignation at the sight of such wanton cruelty, inflicted upon a wise, sentient creature - for the perverse pleasure of ...