Sonechka And Other Stories

Author : Ludmila Ulitskaya
Publisher : Schocken
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307427885

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Sonechka by Ludmila Ulitskaya Pdf

The Los Angeles Times said of Ludmila Ulitskaya’s The Funeral Party, “In America we have friends, family, lovers, and parents–four kinds of love. Could it really be that in Russia they have more? Ludmila Ulitskaya makes it seem so.” In Sonechka: A Novella and Stories, Ulitskaya brings us tales of these other loves in her richly lyrical prose, populated with captivating and unusual characters. In “Queen of Spades,” Anna, a successful ophthalmologic surgeon in her sixties; her daughter, Katya; and Katya’s teenage daughter and young son live in constant terror of Anna’s mother, a domineering, autocratic, aging former beauty queen. In “Angel,” a closeted middle-aged professor marries an uneducated charwoman for love of her young son, raising the child in his image. In “The Orlov-Sokolovs,” perfectly matched young lovers are pulled apart by the Soviet academic bureaucracy. And in the stunning novella “Sonechka,” the heroine, a bookworm turned muse turned mother, reveals a love and loyalty at once astounding in its generosity and grotesque in its pathos. In these stories, love and life are lived under the radar of oppression, in want of material comfort, in obeisance to or matter-of-fact rejection of the pervasive restrictions of Soviet rule. If living well is the best revenge, then Ludmila Ulitskaya’s characters, in choosing to embrace the unique gifts that their lives bring them, are small heroes of the quotidian, their stories as funny and tender as they are brilliantly told.

Author : Li︠u︡dmila Ulit︠s︡kai︠a︡
Publisher : Glas New Russian Writting
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UCSC:32106017126498

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Sonechka and Other Stories by Li︠u︡dmila Ulit︠s︡kai︠a︡ Pdf

Physically unattractive, lanky Sonechka with her skinny legs and flat bum, has for defensive reasons been a bookworm since the age of seven. Only when she is twenty-seven is she discovered, working in the basement of a Siberian library by artist Robert Victorvich who, already internationally renowned, returned to Russia in the early 1930's only to be exiled to the labour camps. When in Robert's old age a new romance invades their marriage, Sonechka reveals unexpected reserves of womanly strength. Sonechkais a novel whose unconventional and understated heroine will delight the English-speaking world.Sonechkawas short-listed for the Booker Russian Novel Prize and has been enthusiastically received in French, German, and Italian translations. It has been awarded the Medici Prize for foreign fiction in France and the Penne Prize in Italy.

Author : David Shrayer-Petrov
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780815652786

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Dinner with Stalin and Other Stories by David Shrayer-Petrov Pdf

These fourteen stories by the acclaimed master of Jewish-Russian fiction are set in the former USSR, Western Europe, and America. Dinner with Stalin features Soviet Jews grappling with issues of identity, acculturation, and assimilation. Shrayer-Petrov explores aspects of antisemitism and persecution, problems of mixed marriages, dilemmas of conversion, and the survival of Jewish memory. Both an author and a physician, Shrayer-Petrov examines his subjects through the double lenses of medicine and literature. He writes about Russian Jews who, having suffered in the former Soviet Union, continue to cultivate their sense of cultural Russianness, even as they—and especially their children—assimilate and increasingly resemble American Jews. Shrayer-Petrov’s stories also bear witness to the ways Jewish immigrants from the former USSR interact with Americans of other identities and creeds, notably with Catholics and Moslems. Not only lovers of Jewish and Russian writing but all discriminating readers will delight in Dinner with Stalin and Other Stories.

Author : Vivian Liska,Thomas Nolden
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2007-12-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780253000071

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Contemporary Jewish Writing in Europe by Vivian Liska,Thomas Nolden Pdf

With contributions from a dozen American and European scholars, this volume presents an overview of Jewish writing in post--World War II Europe. Striking a balance between close readings of individual texts and general surveys of larger movements and underlying themes, the essays portray Jewish authors across Europe as writers and intellectuals of multiple affiliations and hybrid identities. Aimed at a general readership and guided by the idea of constructing bridges across national cultures, this book maps for English-speaking readers the productivity and diversity of Jewish writers and writing that has marked a revitalization of Jewish culture in France, Germany, Austria, Italy, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Hungary, Poland, and Russia.

Author : Ludmila Ulitskaya
Publisher : Ediciones Era
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Russian fiction
ISBN : 968411656X

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Sonechka by Ludmila Ulitskaya Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Russia
ISBN : IND:30000107217618

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Glas by Anonim Pdf

Author : Li︠u︡dmila Ulit︠s︡kai︠a︡
Publisher : Random House Digital, Inc.
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Librarians
ISBN : 0805241957

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Sonechka by Li︠u︡dmila Ulit︠s︡kai︠a︡ Pdf

The Los Angeles Times said of Ludmila Ulitskaya’s The Funeral Party, “In America we have friends, family, lovers, and parents–four kinds of love. Could it really be that in Russia they have more? Ludmila Ulitskaya makes it seem so.” In Sonechka: A Novella and Stories, Ulitskaya brings us tales of these other loves in her richly lyrical prose, populated with captivating and unusual characters. In “Queen of Spades,” Anna, a successful ophthalmologic surgeon in her sixties; her daughter, Katya; and Katya’s teenage daughter and young son live in constant terror of Anna’s mother, a domineering, autocratic, aging former beauty queen. In “Angel,” a closeted middle-aged professor marries an uneducated charwoman for love of her young son, raising the child in his image. In “The Orlov-Sokolovs,” perfectly matched young lovers are pulled apart by the Soviet academic bureaucracy. And in the stunning novella “Sonechka,” the heroine, a bookworm turned muse turned mother, reveals a love and loyalty at once astounding in its generosity and grotesque in its pathos. In these stories, love and life are lived under the radar of oppression, in want of material comfort, in obeisance to or matter-of-fact rejection of the pervasive restrictions of Soviet rule. If living well is the best revenge, then Ludmila Ulitskaya’s characters, in choosing to embrace the unique gifts that their lives bring them, are small heroes of the quotidian, their stories as funny and tender as they are brilliantly told.

Author : Adele Marie Barker,Jehanne M. Gheith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2002-07-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139433150

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A History of Women's Writing in Russia by Adele Marie Barker,Jehanne M. Gheith Pdf

A History of Women's Writing in Russia offers a comprehensive account of the lives and works of Russia's women writers. Based on original and archival research, this volume forces a re-examination of many of the traditionally held assumptions about Russian literature and women's role in the tradition. In setting about the process of reintegrating women writers into the history of Russian literature, contributors have addressed the often surprising contexts within which women's writing has been produced. Chapters reveal a flourishing literary tradition where none was thought to exist. They redraw the map defining Russia's literary periods, they look at how Russia's women writers articulated their own experience, and they reassess their relationship to the dominant male tradition. The volume is supported by extensive reference features including a bibliography and guide to writers and their works.

Author : Ludmila Ulitskaya
Publisher : Schocken
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2010-12-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307772565

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The Funeral Party by Ludmila Ulitskaya Pdf

August 1991. In a sweltering New York City apartment, a group of Russian émigrés gathers round the deathbed of an artist named Alik, a charismatic character beloved by them all, especially the women who take turns nursing him as he fades from this world. Their reminiscences of the dying man and of their lives in Russia are punctuated by debates and squabbles: Whom did Alik love most? Should he be baptized before he dies, as his alcoholic wife, Nina, desperately wishes, or be reconciled to the faith of his birth by a rabbi who happens to be on hand? And what will be the meaning for them of the Yeltsin putsch, which is happening across the world in their long-lost Moscow but also right before their eyes on CNN? This marvelous group of individuals inhabits the first novel by Ludmila Ulitskaya to be published in English, a book that was shortlisted for the Russian Booker Prize and has been praised wherever translated editions have appeared. Simultaneously funny and sad, lyrical in its Russian sorrow and devastatingly keen in its observation of character, The Funeral Party introduces to our shores a wonderful writer who captures, wryly and tenderly, our complex thoughts and emotions confronting life and death, love and loss, homeland and exile.

Author : Elizabeth Skomp,Benjamin M. Sutcliffe
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780299304140

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Ludmila Ulitskaya and the Art of Tolerance by Elizabeth Skomp,Benjamin M. Sutcliffe Pdf

Novelist Ludmila Ulitskaya is a best-selling and critically lauded Russian writer who champions the values of liberalism and tolerance and critiques Putin's policies. This is the first English-language book about this important writer, placing her in the shifting landscape of post-Soviet society and culture.

Author : Ludmila Ulitskaya
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2023-10-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780300274660

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The Body of the Soul by Ludmila Ulitskaya Pdf

A new collection of stories by the acclaimed Ludmila Ulitskaya, masterfully translated into English “[A] magnificent collection . . . [by] a writer of boundless tenderness.”—Geneviève Brisac, Le Monde “Centrifugal, pensive, often elusive stories by one of the greatest living Russian writers (and leading anti-Putinist). . . . The stories are marvels of economy and the unexpected twist, each a memorable tour de force. . . . A welcome introduction to the short fiction of an essential writer.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review) While we can feel, know, and study the body, the soul refuses definition. Where does it begin and end? What does the soul have to do with love? Does it exist at all, and if so, does it outlast the body? Or are the soul and body really one and the same? These are questions posed by the characters who inhabit this book of stories by the award-winning Russian writer Ludmila Ulitskaya. A woman believes that the best way to control her life is to control her death. A landscape photographer wonders if the beauty he has witnessed can triumph over decay. A coroner dedicated to science is confronted by a startling physical anomaly, a lonely widow experiences an extraordinary transformation, a woman whose life is devoted to language finds words slipping away from her. In these eleven stories, artfully rendered into English by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, Ulitskaya maps the edges of our lives, tracing a delicate geography of the soul.

Author : Rosalind J. Marsh
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 598 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 3039110691

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Literature, History and Identity in Post-Soviet Russia, 1991-2006 by Rosalind J. Marsh Pdf

"The aim of this book is to explore some of the main pre-occupations of literature, culture and criticism dealing with historical themes in post-Soviet Russia, focusing mainly on literature in the years 1991 to 2006." --introd.

Author : Rajendra Anand Chitnis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2004-11-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134254071

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Literature in Post-Communist Russia and Eastern Europe by Rajendra Anand Chitnis Pdf

This book considers Russian, Czech and Slovak fiction in the late communist and early post-communist periods. It focuses on the most innovative trend to emerge in this period, on those writers who, during and after the collapse of communism, characterised themselves as 'liberators' of literature. It shows how these writers in their fiction and critical work reacted against the politicisation of literature by Marxist-Leninist and dissident ideologues, rejecting the conventional perception of literature as moral teacher, and redefining the nature and purpose of writing. The book demonstrates how this quest, enacted in the works of these writers, served for many critics and readers as a metaphor for the wider disorientation and crisis precipitated by the collapse of communism.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Bibliography
ISBN : UOM:39015052820357

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World Literature Today by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ludmila Ulitskaya
Publisher : Schocken
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307426833

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Medea and Her Children by Ludmila Ulitskaya Pdf

Medea Georgievna Sinoply Mendez is an iconic figure in her Crimean village, the last remaining pure-blooded Greek in a family that has lived on that coast for centuries. Childless Medea is the touchstone of a large family, which gathers each spring and summer at her home. There are her nieces (sexy Nike and shy Masha), her nephew Georgii (who shares Medea’s devotion to the Crimea), and their friends. In this single summer, the languor of love will permeate the Crimean air, hearts will be broken, and old memories will float to consciousness, allowing us to experience not only the shifting currents of erotic attraction and competition, but also the dramatic saga of this family amid the forces of dislocation, war, and upheaval of twentieth-century Russian life.