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Author : British Library
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-02-07
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9783111576695
Author : K. G. Saur Verlag GmbH & Company,Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Publisher : De Gruyter Saur
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3112080769
Author : Andreï Makine
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2011-05-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781628721164
Every summer, young Andrei visits his grandmother, Charlotte Lemmonier, whom he loves dearly. In a dusty village overlooking the vast Russian steppes, she captivates her grandson and the other children of the village with wondrous tales—watching Proust play tennis in Neuilly, Tsar Nicholas II’s visit to Paris, French president Felix Faure dying in the arms of his mistress. But from his mysterious grandmother, Andrei also learns of a Russia he has never known: a country of famine and misery, brutal injustice, and the hopeless chaos of war. Enthralled, he weaves her stories into his own secret universe of memory and dream. She creates for him a vivid portrait of the France of her childhood, a distant Atlantis far more elegant, carefree, and stimulating than Russia in the 1970s and ‘80s. Her warm, artful memories of her homeland and of books captivate Andrei. Absorbed in this vision, he becomes an outsider in his own country, and eventually a restless traveler around Europe. Dreams of My Russian Summers is an epic full of passion and tenderness, pain and heartbreak, mesmerizing in every way.
Author : Andreï Makine,Andrei Makine
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2009-12-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781848947825
Locked behind the Iron Curtain, a young boy grows up bewitched by his French grandmother’s memories of Paris before the Great War. On her balcony overlooking the Siberian steppes, Charlotte Lemonnier fires her grandson’s imagination with tales of the great flood in 1910, of Proust playing tennis in Neuilly and the President dying in the arms of his mistress, of avenues lined with chestnut trees and elegant cafes. Charlotte’s vision of a paradise lost, though, is overlaid by her subsequent experience. As her grandson grows older, he learns how this remarkable woman survived the Russian revolution’s aftermath, Stalin’s purges and the horrors of the Second World War, gaining from her a portrait of the country drawn with an outsider’s eye. Yet for all the monstrosities of his native land, he realises he is proud to be Russian. Torn between two cultures, as an adolescent he turns his back on all things French. Then in his twenties he abandons the Soviet Union and eventually reaches Paris – where a startling revelation awaits him. This luminous, haunting novel traces a sentimental and intellectual journey that embraces the dramatic history of this century.
Author : Andreï Makine
Publisher : Sceptre
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2006-12-28
Category : Grandchildren
ISBN : 034093641X
On the edge of the Siberian steppes, a young boy grows up listening to his French grandmother's stories of France just before the Great War - a nostalgic portrait of a vanished world, but a bewitching one during the Soviet regime. Torn between two cultures, he eventually leaves after the fall of the Berlin Wall for Paris.
Author : Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1688 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
ISBN : UOM:39015079817048
Author : Library of Congress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1752 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
ISBN : WISC:89092323963
Author : Andreï Makine
Publisher : Arcade Publishing
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1559706872
Makine is considered internationally as one of the most important writers of this time. Here, the harsh realities of World War II and the postwar era are unsparingly depicted.
Author : Ilya Ehrenburg
Publisher : Simon Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2001-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1931541787
This exceptional novel by the well-known Russian writer describes the decay and eventual collapse of French society between 1935 and the German occupation in 1940.
Author : Andreï Makine
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2011-11-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781628723311
The summer of ’47. In the sleepy town of Villiers-la-Forêt, roughly an hour from Paris, the peaceful radiance of the day is interrupted by the discovery that, along a nearby riverbank, the body of a man has washed up, a gaping wound in his skull. Beside him rests a beautiful, nearly bare-breasted woman, her dress soaked and in tatters. An accident or foul play? A crime of passion? Soon there are almost as many speculations and theories as there are townspeople. The woman, it turns out, is a Russian princess, Olga Arbyelina, a refugee from the Bolshevik revolution who in the 1930s had settled in town along with many of her compatriots. Rumor was that Olga's husband, a dashing prince given to gambling and revels, had deserted her some years after the couple's arrival in France, leaving her alone to care for their young son. About the victim, also a Russian refugee, little is known: many years Olga's elder, he was a taciturn, rather coarse, slightly ridiculous man name Sergei Golets, thought dismissively to be a former horse butcher. What on earth could have brought these two unlikely souls together? Makine meticulously re-creates Olga's past—her enchanted childhood; her pampered youth and fevered, transitory embrace of the revolution; her arduous flight toward freedom; her encounter with the dashing White Army officer who saved her life; her marriage and arrival in France; the birth of her adored son. Love has its limits, its limitations and boundaries. But in a woman of great passion, what do such limits mean when you know that each day may be the last for your son?
Author : M.A. Orthofer
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780231518505
A user-friendly reference for English-language readers who are eager to explore contemporary fiction from around the world. Profiling hundreds of titles and authors from 1945 to today, with an emphasis on fiction published in the past two decades, this guide introduces the styles, trends, and genres of the world's literatures, from Scandinavian crime thrillers and cutting-edge Chinese works to Latin American narco-fiction and award-winning French novels. The book's critical selection of titles defines the arc of a country's literary development. Entries illuminate the fiction of individual nations, cultures, and peoples, while concise biographies sketch the careers of noteworthy authors. Compiled by M. A. Orthofer, an avid book reviewer and the founder of the literary review site the Complete Review, this reference is perfect for readers who wish to expand their reading choices and knowledge of contemporary world fiction. “A bird's-eye view of titles and authors from everywhere―a book overfull with reminders of why we love to read international fiction. Keep it close by.”—Robert Con Davis-Udiano, executive director, World Literature Today “M. A. Orthofer has done more to bring literature in translation to America than perhaps any other individual. [This book] will introduce more new worlds to you than any other book on the market.”—Tyler Cowen, George Mason University “A relaxed, riverine guide through the main currents of international writing, with sections for more than a hundred countries on six continents.”—Karan Mahajan, Page-Turner blog, The New Yorker
Author : Library of Congress. Office for Subject Cataloging Policy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1660 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
ISBN : UOM:39015020244292
Author : Gleb Struve
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781000386370
This book, first published in 1944, is a comprehensive survey of post-revolutionary Russian literature up to the early 1940s. A huge range of writers are examined, and the analysis is made in the knowledge of the sometimes considerable pressure brought by the Government on writers in Soviet Russia. Links are made by the author between the writers being assessed, as well as to the Russian writers that had come before them. As a wide-ranging analysis of Soviet literature, this book has rarely been bettered.
Author : Andreï Makine
Publisher : Skyhorse
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2011-11-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781628723632
A moving, utterly captivating love story: Romeo and Juliet as if told by Chekhov or Dostoevsky. In a remote Russian village a woman waits, as she has waited for almost three decades, for the man she loves to return. Near the end of World War II, nineteen-year-old Boris Koptek left the village to join the Russian army, swearing to the sixteen-year-old love of his life, Vera, that as soon as he returned they would marry. Young Boris, who with his engineering battalion fought his way almost to Berlin, was reported killed in action crossing the Spree River. But Vera refuses to believe he is dead, and each day, all these years later, faithfully awaits his return. Then one day the narrator arrives in the village, a twenty-six-year-old native of Leningrad, who is fascinated both by the still-beautiful woman and her exemplary story, and little by little he falls madly in love with her. But how can he compete with a ghost that will not die? Beautifully, delicately, but always powerfully, Andreï Makine delineates in masterly prose the movements and madness that constitute the dance of pure love. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade, Yucca, and Good Books imprints, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in fiction—novels, novellas, political and medical thrillers, comedy, satire, historical fiction, romance, erotic and love stories, mystery, classic literature, folklore and mythology, literary classics including Shakespeare, Dumas, Wilde, Cather, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.
Author : Library of Congress. Subject Cataloging Division
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1546 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Subject headings
ISBN : UOM:39015010364530