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Bulgakovby Lesley Milne
Taylor & Francis 1996; US$ 90.00Today, in his native Russia, Mikhail Bulgakov (1891-1940) is one of the writers whose works are most frequently read and whose plays are most frequently staged. Since the publication of his works from the 1960s onwards, he has also emerged as a major European author. Bulgakov: The Novelist-Playwright reflects Bulgakov's current stature. The book is a collection of 21 articles by scholars from eight different countries: Britain, Canada, the Czech Republic, France, India, Russia, the Ukraine and the USA. In a diverse range of contributions, the authors discuss Bulgakov against the literary and theatrical background, both of his own time and in the context of today's polycentric, multicultural world. The different viewpoints present a rounded... more...
The Cambridge Companion to Nabokovby Julian W. Connolly
Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 26.00The Cambridge Companion to Nabokov provides a concise introduction to one of the twentieth century's most important writers, covering Nabokov's style, preoccupations, and evolution as a writer and the impact of his controversial masterpiece Lolita. The volume also contains a chronology of his life and a guide to further reading. more...
Vladimir Nabokov - American Writers 96by Julian Moynahan
University of Minnesota Press 1971; US$ 36.00Vladimir Nabokov - American Writers 96 was first published in 1971. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. more...
Nabokov and the Art of Paintingby Gerard J.M. de Vries; D. Barton Johnson
Amsterdam University Press 2005; US$ 59.50A richly illustrated and comprehensive discussion of all the explicit pictorial references in Nabokov's oeuvre and their bearing on the major themes in his novels more...
The Enigma of Isaac Babelby Gregory Freidin
Stanford University Press 2009; US$ 60.00Part biography, part history, part critical examination of Babel's legacy in Russian, European, and Jewish cultural context, The Enigma of Isaac Babel offers the first comprehensive view of the great Russian Jewish author since the opening of Soviet archives. more...
The Roadby Vasily Grossman; Robert Chandler; Elizabeth Chandler; Olga Mukovnikova; Robert Chandler
New York Review of Books 2010; US$ 15.95The Road rings together short stories, journalism, essays, and letters by Vasily Grossman, the author of Life and Fate, providing new insight into the life and work of this extraordinary writer. The stories range from Grossman’s first success, “In the Town of Berdichev,” a piercing reckoning with the cost of war, to such haunting later works as “Mama,” based on the life of a girl who was adopted at the height of the Great Terror by the head of the NKVD and packed off to an orphanage after her father’s downfall. The girl grows up struggling with the discovery that the parents she cherishes in memory are part of a collective nightmare that everyone else wishes to forget. The Road also includes the complete... more...
Doctor Zhivagoby Richard Pevear; Larissa Volokhonsky; Boris Pasternak
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2010; US$ 12.99n celebration of the 40th anniversary of its original publication, here is the only paperback edition now available of the classic story of the life and loves of a poet/physician during the turmoil of the Russian Revolution. more...
Das Theater des Daniil Charms als Strukturtyp des 'anderen' Theatersby Larsen Sechert
Diplomica Verlag 2010; US$ 13.94Charms und die Oberiuten strebten nach einer Sprache (ohne Worte), die jenseits von Verstand und Rationalität lag und die Wirklichkeit als Ganzes zu verstehen vermochte. Nicht nur auf der Bühne und in seinen Texten parodierte Charms banale Alltäglichkeiten, pseudophilosophischen Tiefsinn, leere Rhetorik, Didaktik und Streitigkeiten um nichts; auch in seinem alltäglichen Verhalten, oder wie es Debüser nennt: "In seinem >Einmanntheater aufbricht Vom sozialen Rollenspieler und Spaßmacher Charms zeugen zahlreiche Anekdoten. So stieg Charms "einmal in der Redaktion des Kinderbuchverlages, die sich im sechsten Stock des heutigen ´Haus des Buches´ befand, mit vollkommen ernstem Gesicht und ohne ein Wort zu sagen, aus dem Fenster (...)", spazierte... more...
Vladimir Nabokovby Barbara Wyllie
Reaktion Books 2010; US$ 20.95Best known for his deeply controversial 1955 novel, Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977) is celebrated as one of the most distinctive literary stylists of the twentieth century. In Vladimir Nabokov, Barbara Wyllie presents a comprehensive account of t more...
Nabokov's Cinematic Afterlifeby Ewa Mazierska
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers 2010; US$ 45.00This book offers critical studies of films that adapted works by Vladimir Nabokov. One of the most screened twentieth century authors (with over ten books adapted for cinema), his works are full of quirky and forbidden romance, and his writing is renowned for its cinematic qualities (e.g., frames, stage directions, and descriptions suggesting specific camera positions and movements). Films discussed include Lolita (both Kubrick's 1962 and Lyne's 1997 versions), Richardson's Laughter in the Dark (1969), Skolimowski's King, Queen, Knave (1972), Fassbinder's Despair (1978), Foulon's Mademoiselle O (1994), Kuik's An Affair of Honor (1999), Gorris' The Luzhin Defence (2000), and Rohmer's The Triple Agent (2004).... more...









