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Forty Stories
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011; US$ 15.95If any writer can be said to have invented the modern short story, it is Anton Chekhov. It is not just that Chekhov democratized this art form; more than that, he changed the thrust of short fiction from relating to revealing. And what marvelous and unbearable things are revealed in these Forty Stories. The abashed happiness of a woman in the presence... more...
The Reading of Russian Literature in China
Palgrave Macmillan 2010; US$ 90.00This book traces the profound influence that Russian literature, which was tied inseparably to the political victory of the Russian revolution, had on China during a period that saw the collapse of imperial rule and the rise of the Communist Party. more...
Dostoyevsky after Bakhtin
Cambridge University Press 1990; US$ 42.00Recent developments in critical theory form the basis for this new study of Dostoyevsky. more...
Stone Lake
Cambridge University Press 1992; US$ 42.00Stone Lake is a translation and study of the poetry of Fan Chengda (11261193), one of the most famous Chinese poets. more...
My Life
University of Ottawa Press 2011; US$ 44.99The Modern Language Association (MLA) awarded the Lois Roth Award to John Woodsworth and Arkadi Klioutchanski of the University of Ottawa?s Slavic Research Group for their translation of Sofia Andreevna Tolstaya?s My Life memoirs. My Life was selected among the top 100 non-fiction works of 2010 by The Globe and Mail. It has also... more...
Russian Village Prose
Princeton University Press 1992; US$ 27.00Kathleen Parth offers the first comprehensive examination of the controversial literary movement Russian Village Prose. From the 1950s to the decline of the movement in the 1970s, Valentin Rasputin, Fedor Abramov, and other writers drew on "luminous" memories of their rural childhoods to evoke a thousand-year-old pattern of life that was disappearing... more...
The Brothers Karamazov
Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2002; US$ 17.99The award-winning translation of Dostoevsky's last and greatest novel. more...
Transnational Russian-American Travel Writing
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 133.00In this study, Marinova examines the diverse practices of crossing boundaries, tactics of translation, and experiences of double and multiple political and national attachments evident in texts about Russo-American encounters from the end of the American Civil War to the Russian Revolution of 1905. Marinova brings together published writings, archival... more...
English Rhythms in Russian Verse: On the Experiment of Joseph Brodsky
De Gruyter 2011; US$ 140.00It is often said that the Russian poet Joseph Brodsky "sounds English" when he writes in Russian, yet, it is far from clear what this statement really means. Using evidence from an unusually wide variety of disciplines and approaches, the book investigates the form and semantic aura of Brodsky's experimental rhythm and proposes a new approach to analyzing... more...
The Dead Feel No Pain
The Edwin Mellen Press 2010; US$ 159.95This book is one of few works by a Soviet writer that provides an honest portrayal of the life of a Soviet foot soldier on the Eastern front in World War II. Aside from the brilliant depiction of life at the front, it reveals how members of Stalins secret police transformed themselves into war heroes and began to resurrect Stalinism, following... more...









