Hi, just a quick post to inform you about a couple of upcoming events. Next week the Russian stand will open at London Book Fair, we also have talks by Russian literary supernovas at the Pushkin House in London, and a Russian literary festival SLOVO will be featuring talks by many celebrated modern authors all week long.… Read the rest
Sometimes, you need to look deep in the past to understand the present. It’s definitely true about art.
Evgeny Vodolazkin (photo by Rodrigo Fernández (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons)
Konstantin Makovsky [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
Natasha Perova, the founder of Glas publishing house
Firstly, I’d like to introduce you short story anthologies published by Glas.… Read the rest
Eighteen years after its publication, the novel Buddha’s Little Finger (Чапаев и Пустота) written by Victor Pelevin remains important and fresh.
Graffiti in Kharkiv (Ukraine), illustrating Pelevin’s novel Buddha’s Little Finger by V. Vizu (own work) [CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0) undefined GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html)]
The Winners of 2014 ReadRussia Translation Prize (photo credit: Russian Institute of Translation)
War tears nations apart and it takes more than long negotiations and ultimate truce to mend broken peace, – magic glue, perhaps. Literature like any other form of art can be this mending glue.… Read the rest
The ReadRussia stand at the London Book Fair 2014
Last week I visited London Book Fair and helped running the Russian stand called ReadRussia. This year Moscow was a guest city at the fair, and a big part of the exhibition at the stand were books about Moscow.… Read the rest
Forget the Death. (the central motto in the new Russian scifi novel “Future” by Dmitry Glukhovsky).
Dystopian and post-apocalyptic science fiction has been popular from the very birth day of the genre. Many recent novels of this kind focus on intricate plots, yet an occasional gem goes a notch above and explores some deep themes and ideas and things that may actually happen in the near future.… Read the rest