Tag: Russian Literature Week 2019

May 24, 2019

Resurrecting a Great Golden Age Poet

It’s the final day of Russian Literature Week. We’ve celebrated all week by sharing events and excerpts from our Russian Library series. Today’s we are sharing an excerpt from a compilation of Konstantin Batyushklov’s work. The final Russian Literature Week...

May 23, 2019

Translating the Untranslatable

Our second #TranslationThursday post brings you an excerpt from Between Dog and Wolf, a novel by Sahsa Sokolov. In honor of of Russian Literature Week, we have shared an excerpts from titles published in our Russian Library series. Russian Literature...

May 23, 2019

Iliazd’s Lost Modernist Masterpiece

All week we have been sharing excerpts from our Russian Library series in honor of Russian Literature Week. Today, for #TranslationThursday, we’re sharing two excerpts for your reading enjoyment. First up, we have an excerpt from Iliazd’s novel Rapture. If...

May 22, 2019

Linor Goralik Conjures the Everyday Absurd

It’s Russian Literature Week! All this week we are sharing excerpts from our Russian Library series. Today we are sharing an excerpt from Linor Goralik’s collection Found Life: Poems, Stories, Comics, a Play, and an Interview, edited by Ainsley Morse, Maria...

May 21, 2019

Platonov’s Response to Stalin’s Assault on the Soviet Peasantry

To continue our Russian Literature Week celebration, today we are sharing an excerpt from Fourteen Little Red Huts and Other Play by Andrei Platonov. If you are in Washington, DC, don’t miss The Man Who Couldn’t Die author Olga Slavnikova...

May 20, 2019

Russian Literature Week 2019

It’s Russian Literature Week! All week (May 20-24) there will be events with acclaimed Russian authors, famed translators, and leading scholars and critics celebrating Russian literature. We’re bringing the #RussianLiteratureWeek celebration online by sharing excerpts throughout the week from our...