A Present Past
Autor Sergei Lebedev Traducere de Antonina W. Bouisen Limba Engleză Paperback – aug 2024
A Present Past is a collection of short stories that brings to vivid life a post-Soviet world haunted by the secrets and crimes of its past. It features a judge overcome by the weight of his ruling, the stories within the old Soviet cemeteries, discovered objects that transport us to another time and the documents of the KGB. Seamlessly blending history with fiction, politics with individualism, reality with magic, the eleven tales explore the unacknowledged crimes of the Soviet Union and Russian State, and show how the devastating sins of the past pervade the present.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781035904129
ISBN-10: 1035904128
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 128 x 198 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.21 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1035904128
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 128 x 198 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.21 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
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Recenzii
A tour de force - exquisite and gripping, finely translated, fiction that pulls you into the beautiful and brutal service of imagining and understanding the human realities of modern Russia, a series of tales meticulously crafted and deeply imagined.
One of Russia's most prominent contemporary writers, Lebedev, 41, has been hailed for a series of novels that hold a mirror up to Russia's blighted past. A former geologist, he chips away at the deep strata of his country's 20th-century history, the seams of trauma concealed by a state-sanctioned campaign of oblivion.
A luminous and magical writer, Sergei Lebedev excavates the Soviet past and gives voice to its restless ghosts. By exploring Russia's dark history he sheds light on its terrible present. Lebedev's stories are urgent and compelling at a time when a Kremlin leader is waging a myth-inspired war in Ukraine.
Memories of the Soviet era emerge through relics, landmarks, and fantastical occurrences in this satisfying collection . . . Lebedev adds vibrant lyrical descriptions to the strange interplay of past and present . . . There's a real payoff to these rich and ambiguous stories.
We know from William Faulkner that 'the past is never dead, [and that] it is not even past'. Yet some pasts are more consequential than others, and Sergei Lebedev's prose captures vividly the crippling presence of Russia's Stalinist past in the life of contemporary Russian society. A very important read.
Lebedev's vibrant, steely fiction has always shown how the weight of Russia's past shapes its present, and this story collection also exhibits a fantastical edge ... the discerning will find much brilliance here
In these brilliant, terrifying stories, Lebedev makes the unseen visible, invoking the spirits of things and places, to say nothing of the anguished souls of the dead themselves. Only a poet - or a shaman - could make us all see what is here. The tales are wonderfully told, completely real and harrowing.
In this striking new collection of eleven stories by the leading exponent of Russian memory fiction, perpetrators conceal their guilt, descendants replay past traumas, and even the most gruesome 'evidence of evil' produces little punishment. As state controls over Russian history and memory grow ever tighter, these terrifying tales of the unburied and uncanny warn of the dire consequences of forgetting, and urgently appeal for remembrance and repentance.
One of Russia's most prominent contemporary writers, Lebedev, 41, has been hailed for a series of novels that hold a mirror up to Russia's blighted past. A former geologist, he chips away at the deep strata of his country's 20th-century history, the seams of trauma concealed by a state-sanctioned campaign of oblivion.
A luminous and magical writer, Sergei Lebedev excavates the Soviet past and gives voice to its restless ghosts. By exploring Russia's dark history he sheds light on its terrible present. Lebedev's stories are urgent and compelling at a time when a Kremlin leader is waging a myth-inspired war in Ukraine.
Memories of the Soviet era emerge through relics, landmarks, and fantastical occurrences in this satisfying collection . . . Lebedev adds vibrant lyrical descriptions to the strange interplay of past and present . . . There's a real payoff to these rich and ambiguous stories.
We know from William Faulkner that 'the past is never dead, [and that] it is not even past'. Yet some pasts are more consequential than others, and Sergei Lebedev's prose captures vividly the crippling presence of Russia's Stalinist past in the life of contemporary Russian society. A very important read.
Lebedev's vibrant, steely fiction has always shown how the weight of Russia's past shapes its present, and this story collection also exhibits a fantastical edge ... the discerning will find much brilliance here
In these brilliant, terrifying stories, Lebedev makes the unseen visible, invoking the spirits of things and places, to say nothing of the anguished souls of the dead themselves. Only a poet - or a shaman - could make us all see what is here. The tales are wonderfully told, completely real and harrowing.
In this striking new collection of eleven stories by the leading exponent of Russian memory fiction, perpetrators conceal their guilt, descendants replay past traumas, and even the most gruesome 'evidence of evil' produces little punishment. As state controls over Russian history and memory grow ever tighter, these terrifying tales of the unburied and uncanny warn of the dire consequences of forgetting, and urgently appeal for remembrance and repentance.
Notă biografică
Sergei Lebedev has been called the most important younger Russian author writing today. His novels have been translated into many languages and four of his works--Untraceable, Oblivion, The Year of the Comet, and The Goose Fritz--have been published in English by New Vessel Press to great acclaim.
Antonina W. Bouis is one of the leading translators of Russian literature now at work. She has translated over eighty works from authors such as Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Mikhail Bulgakov, and Andrei Sakharov. Bouis, previously executive director of the Soros Foundation in the former USSR, now lives in New York City.
Antonina W. Bouis is one of the leading translators of Russian literature now at work. She has translated over eighty works from authors such as Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Mikhail Bulgakov, and Andrei Sakharov. Bouis, previously executive director of the Soros Foundation in the former USSR, now lives in New York City.