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Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: The appeal of this book is not only in its infectious eroticism, its wit and humor but mainly in its masterful portrayal of Soviet Russia in the 1970s and 80s through a multitude of cleverly observed details. Although «The Road to Rome» is actually a collection of reminiscences about real events it is structured as a plot-driven narrative and was in fact nominated for the Booker Prize in 1995 as…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: An anti-utopian novel about a society where success depends on the degree of a person's likeness to the Model Face.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: As Russian society passes through a stage of wrenching transformation, the vision of its writers has veered toward the absurd. Even those who work in a realist style enrich their stories with fantasy and a sense of the impossible. This unique collection presents the latest work of some of the modern absurdist writers, Genrikh Sapgir, Victor Pelevin, Valery Ronshin, Alexander Selin, Grigory…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: In this collection, centred on the theme of Childhood, we offer two early stories by Andrei Bitov which reflect the growing awareness in children of life's mystery and beauty; a story by Andrei Platonov, bearing the stamp of his inimitable style; Ludmilla Ulitskaya's perspicacious insight into the complex relationship between twin sisters; an impressionistic story by Zufar Gareev about the…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: »Stamp Album» paints a picture of hitherto unknown «catacomb Russia». The communal apartment Sergeev describes is not a typical community of Soviet citizens... They neither fight the regime, nor adapt to it... Sergeev's memory seems to collect mere trifles: children's ditties, counting rhymes, old slogans, newspaper clippings, snatches of conversations, official documents, urban folklore and much…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Leonid Latynin was born in a small town on the Volga and raised by his old grandmother on old religious books and Russian folklore. Since childhood he has been fascinated with pre-Christian Russian culture, which found expression in his highly original novels. Latynin was trained as a philologist and has become an expert in pre-Christian Russian culture and Russian icons. Both of these interests…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 126 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 222) Аннотация: »Sea Stories» depicts the realities of life inside the army. Alexander Pokrovsky's cycle of satirical stories about the trials and trivialities of life on a nuclear submarine are both funny and frightening. Alexander Terekhov relates his traumatic first-hand experiences in the army without losing sight of man's better nature.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Boris Slutsky has now emerged as one of Russia's great twentieth-century poets. Unlike his contemporary Solzhenitsyn, this once ardent Stalinist remained inside the Soviet literary establishment, and kept his unacceptable work to himself. His best poetry and prose were published only after his death. In «Things That Happened» the innermost thoughts of this clear-eyed tragedian are revealed as he…

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: An avant-garde novel which mirrors the chaos that now infuses Russian life as its people struggle to navigate the transition from communism to democracy. Skunk, so nicknamed because he grows up small and stunted, feels restless, out of place, and nearly hopeless, but everywhere finds nothing but corruption and dishonesty.