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The Deleted World
House of Anansi Press 2011; US$ 14.95Tomas Tranströmer -- the recipient of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Literature -- can be clearly recognized not just as Sweden's most important poet, but as a writer of international stature whose work speaks to us now with undiminished clarity and resonance. Long celebrated as a master of the arresting, suggestive image, Tranströmer is a poet of the liminal:... more...
Chekhov: The Essential Plays
Random House Publishing Group 2003; US$ 10.00Because Chekhov?s plays convey the universally recognizable, sometimes comic, sometimes dramatic, frustrations of decent people trying to make sense of their lives, they remain as fresh and vigorous as when they were written a century ago. Gathered here in superb new renderings by one of the most highly regarded translators of our time?versions that... more...
A History of Women's Writing in Russia
Cambridge University Press 2002; US$ 34.00A comprehensive account of the lives and works of Russia's women writers from the Middle Ages to the present. Contributors have addressed the surprising contexts within which women's writing has been produced. The volume is supported by extensive reference features including a bibliography and guide to writers and their works. more...
Plays
Penguin Group US 2002; US$ 10.00Anton Chekhov wrote that "narrative is my legal wife and drama a flamboyant, rowdy, impudent, exhausting mistress." At a time when the Russian stage was dominated by farces, formulaic melodramas, and vaudevilles, Chekhov created plays that focused on characters grappling with moral questions. His works baffled his audiences, but his sensitive explorations... more...
Kempgen, Sebastian; Kosta, Peter; Berger, Tilman; Gutschmidt, Karl: Die slavischen Sprachen / The Slavic Languages. Halbband 1
De Gruyter 2009; US$ 517.00The handbook is intended to present a well balanced general view of the current state of Slavic linguistics and the Slavic languages with regard to their synchronic and diachronic description. In contrast to previous undertakings of a similar nature, this handbook is not intended to be a grammar with chapters on individual languages. Its length, the... more...
In Praise of the Unfinished
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2012; US$ 25.00Hailed by Czeslaw Milosz as ?the grande dame of Polish poetry? and named ?one of the foremost Polish poets of the twentieth century? by Ryszard Kapuscinski, Julia Hartwig has long been considered the gold standard of poetry in her native Poland. With this career-spanning collection, we finally have a book of her work in English. The tragic story... more...
Great Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoyevsky
ReadHowYouWant 2009; US$ 3.99Books for All Kinds of Readers Read HowYouWant offers the widest selection of on-demand, accessible format editions on the market today. Our 7 different sizes of EasyRead are optimized by increasing the font size and spacing between the words and the letters. We partner with leading publishers around the globe. Our goal is to have accessible editions... more...
Tolstoy
Profile 2010; US$ 23.98A hundred years ago in November 1910 Count Leo Tolstoy died on a remote Russian railway station, attended by the worlds media, taken ill as he was finally attempting to escape his decadent (as he saw it), aristocratic family life.Tolstoy has been universally recognised as a colossus of world literature whether by his contemporaries or critics.... more...
Degrees of Explicitness
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2002; US$ 165.00This book explores factors relevant in the choices speakers and writers make in regard to explicitness of reference to the subjects and objects in their utterances. Bulgarian is a particularly felicitous target language for this type of study, since it possesses a rich inventory of available packaging techniques, ranging from zero reference, to various... 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...









