Bajesvolk


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Bajesvolk


Bajesvolk
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Author : Michail Chodorkovski
language : nl
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014-12-10

Bajesvolk written by Michail Chodorkovski and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-12-10 with Biography & Autobiography categories.


Michail Chodorkovski laat de lezer in deze 21 portretjes niet alleen kennismaken met een aantal mensen die hij in de gevangenis ontmoette. De toon is laconiek, de verhalen zijn kort, soms ontroerend of hartverscheurend, maar tussen de regels door geeft hij een beeld van de gevangenismachinerie die draait op corruptie en geweld. De gevangenen zowel als de bewakers en rechercheurs zoeken hierin hun weg en maken hun keuzen. Zo verging het bijvoorbeeld Ljosja, veroordeeld voor doodslag: Enige tijd later krijg ik een disciplinaire straf en ik klaag de kampleiding aan. Dan kom ik erachter dat Ljosja als getuige opgeroepen wordt. Ik verwacht niet anders dan dat hij zal zeggen wat ze van hem verwachten. In het kamp zijn er legio manieren om iemand te 'overtuigen'. De rechtszaak vindt plaats. Alle 'belangrijke mensen' zijn aanwezig: de kampchef, het hoofd van de opsporingsafdeling, hun plaatsvervangers. De zitting wordt geleid door de voorzitter van de stedelijke rechtbank. Ljosja wordt opgeroepen. Hij is duidelijk angstig en in de war, hij hakkelt, maar spreekt de waarheid! Mijn advocaat en ik kijken elkaar aan, we begrijpen er niets van. Onze opponenten aan de overkant al evenmin. De rechter laat Ljosja gaan, hij loopt de deur uit en komt meteen weer terug. 'Die daar, ' zegt Ljosja en wijst naar het hoofd van de opsporingsafdeling, 'gaf me twee pakjes sigaretten en zei dat ik moest liegen.' Ik kijk naar degenen die tegenover me zitten. De chef vertrekt geen spier, zijn ondergeschikte kleurt langzaam donkerrood. 'Maar ik ga niet liegen, ik heb de waarheid gesproken. Hier zijn de sigaretten.' Hij overhandigt de rechter een pakje L&M en bekent: 'Dat andere heb ik opgerookt. Zulke goeie heb ik nog nooit gehad.' Chodorkovski stelt zichzelf, de Russische maatschappij en justitie, maar ook de lezer regelmatig kritische vragen. Waar staan wij als het om onrecht gaat?





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Author : Э.Майолл
language : ru
Publisher: Альпина Паблишер
Release Date : 2017-05-11

written by Э.Майолл and has been published by Альпина Паблишер this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-11 with Travel categories.




Combustions


Combustions
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Author : Srđan Srdić
language : en
Publisher: Glagoslav Publications
Release Date : 2018-10-08

Combustions written by Srđan Srdić and has been published by Glagoslav Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-08 with Fiction categories.


Srđan Srdić’s collection of short stories, Combustions, establishes this author’s position as one of the best prose writers in Serbia and across the region. This book consists of nine stories in which the author brings the reader face to face with the seamy side of everyday life, where, somewhere in the province, hopelessness and despair of the endless Balkan transition meet one another in the most radical way. Devoid of illusions of social engagement and narrative tricks, Srdić linguistically demolishes the present and its numerous platitudes, either liberal or conservative, with which we have been overwhelmed for years, to the extent that we can no longer discern the depth of the twilight zone in which we live. Srdić’s stories are linguistically flawless, authentic and emblematically recognizable. The ironic distance that Srdić uses to talk about his characters, which are often socially marginalized and in disproportion to self-perception, combined with exquisite attention to detail, associativity and a number of intertextual references, makes this collection of short stories a genuine masterpiece, which uncompromisingly brings into light the bizarre quality of contemporary life.



The Revenge Of The Foxes


The Revenge Of The Foxes
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Author : Ak Welsapar
language : en
Publisher: Glagoslav Publications
Release Date : 2018-10-31

The Revenge Of The Foxes written by Ak Welsapar and has been published by Glagoslav Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-31 with Fiction categories.


Moscow, during the collapse of the Soviet system: In a hospital, young people awaiting heart operations and possible death, live just for today with mischief-making and even love affairs, under the stringent gaze of the old matron, Baba Nastya. Here one of the patients, a young Turkmen, meets a Greek Comsomol boy, a Russian Stalinist with a ‘robotic’ heart, and the lovely but tragic Mary. To whom does the future belong – to the soulless robots or the poetical souls?



Olanda


Olanda
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Author : Rafał Wojasiński
language : en
Publisher: Glagoslav Publications
Release Date : 2020-05-27

Olanda written by Rafał Wojasiński and has been published by Glagoslav Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-05-27 with Fiction categories.


I’ve been happy since the morning. Delighted, even. Everything seems so splendidly transient to me. That dust, from which thou art and unto which thou shalt return — it tempts me. And that’s why I wander about these roads, these woods, among the nearby houses, from which waft the aromas of fried pork chops, chicken soup, fish, diapers, steamed potatoes for the pigs; I lose my eye-sight, and regain it again. I don’t know what life is, Ola, but I’m holding on to it. Thus speaks the narrator of Rafał Wojasiński’s novel Olanda. Awarded the prestigious Marek Nowakowski Prize for 2019, Olanda introduces us to a world we glimpse only through the window of our train, as we hurry from one important city to another: a provincial world of dilapidated farmhouses and sagging apartment blocks, overgrown cemeteries and village drunks; a world seemingly abandoned by God — and yet full of the basic human joy of life itself. Our English translation of Olanda, which includes the radio play Old Man Kalina, brings one of Poland’s great contemporary writers of fiction to the wider world for the first time. These narratives may not contain the entire world, just like a village at the end of a dirt road running through ponds, that floods after a heavy rain, does not contain all that may be found in Warsaw. But the world they contain is an intriguing one, in which everyone, from aging beauties through gravedigger philosophers, defrocked seminarians and even the occasional politician, is welcome.



A Burglar Of The Better Sort


A Burglar Of The Better Sort
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Author : Tytus Czyżewski
language : en
Publisher: Glagoslav Publications
Release Date : 2019-11-29

A Burglar Of The Better Sort written by Tytus Czyżewski and has been published by Glagoslav Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-29 with Poetry categories.


The history of Poland, since the eighteenth century, has been marked by an almost unending struggle for survival. From 1795 through 1945, she was partitioned four times by her stronger neighbours, most of whom were intent on suppressing if not eradicating Polish culture. It is not surprising, then, that much of the great literature written in modern Poland has been politically and patriotically engaged. Yet there is a second current as well, that of authors devoted above all to the craft of literary expression, creating ‘art for art’s sake,’ and not as a didactic national service. Such a poet is Tytus Czyżewski, one of the chief, and most interesting, literary figures of the twentieth century. Growing to maturity in the benign Austrian partition of Poland, and creating most of his works in the twenty-year window of authentic Polish independence stretching between the two world wars, Czyżewski is an avant-garde poet, dramatist and painter who popularised the new approach to poetry established in France by Guillaume Apollinaire, and was to exert a marked influence on such multi-faceted artists as Tadeusz Kantor. A Burglar of the Better Sort offers, in the English translation of Charles S. Kraszewski, the entirety of Czyżewski’s surviving literary output, from surrealistic plays like Donkey and Sun in Metamorphosis and his inimitable ‘formistic poems’ through the playful Christmas ‘pastorals’ — which so delighted Czesław Miłosz — to his theoretical writings, which form the basis for his radically individual, shamanistic approach to literary creation. A truly global talent, Czyżewski belongs to the world, a world which, beyond Poland, finally has the opportunity to get to know him.



An English Queen And Stalingrad


An English Queen And Stalingrad
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Author : Natalia Kulishenko
language : en
Publisher: Glagoslav Publications
Release Date : 2020-02-26

An English Queen And Stalingrad written by Natalia Kulishenko and has been published by Glagoslav Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-26 with History categories.


The author traces the Queen Mother’s formative years, her family life in the palace environment, her growing adoration and ascension to the British throne, how she arranged aid to Stalingrad and was ultimately named an honorary citizen of that city, and other little-known details from the life of the Queen and her circle. With a foreword by Yuri Fokin, Russia’s ambassador to the UK in the period 1997–2000, who was personally acquainted with the Queen Mother, the book will undoubtedly appeal to the British public and to anyone interested in Russian-British relations and the two countries’ World War II history. Illustrated with photographs from private collections and from the Battle of Stalingrad Museum, some of which readers will see for the first time. Published with the support of the Institute for Literary Translation, Russia.



Precursor


Precursor
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Author : Vasyl Shevchuk
language : en
Publisher: Glagoslav Publications
Release Date : 2021-11-30

Precursor written by Vasyl Shevchuk and has been published by Glagoslav Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-30 with Fiction categories.


A philosopher obstinately searching for truth in the 1700s, badgered by the church for speaking out on human rights and the hypocrisy of the ruling elite, Skovoroda was forced to live an unsettled life. Hryhoriy Skovoroda (1722–1794), dubbed a “wandering” philosopher, was one of the most colourful figures in 18th century Ukraine. He spent most of his life travelling about the country and spoke out in defence of justice and freedom for the common folk, often to his own detriment. His songs became folk songs, and his parables helped drive philosophical thought in many Slavic countries. Precursor is a panoramic, factually accurate novel, painting a realistic picture of life in the Russian Empire. It is an illustration of the epitaph on Skovoroda’s gravestone: “The world pursued me, but failed to catch me.”



A Brown Man In Russia


A Brown Man In Russia
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Author : Vijay Menon
language : en
Publisher: Glagoslav Publications
Release Date : 2018-05-10

A Brown Man In Russia written by Vijay Menon and has been published by Glagoslav Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-10 with Biography & Autobiography categories.


A Brown Man in Russia describes the fantastical travels of a young, colored American traveler as he backpacks across Russia in the middle of winter via the Trans-Siberian. The book is a hybrid between the curmudgeonly travelogues of Paul Theroux and the philosophical works of Robert Pirsig. Styled in the vein of Hofstadter, the author lays out a series of absurd, but true stories followed by a deeper rumination on what they mean and why they matter. Each chapter presents a vivid anecdote from the perspective of the fumbling traveler and concludes with a deeper lesson to be gleaned. For those who recognize the discordant nature of our world in a time ripe for demagoguery and for those who want to make it better, the book is an all too welcome antidote. It explores the current global climate of despair over differences and outputs a very different message – one of hope and shared understanding. At times surreal, at times inappropriate, at times hilarious, and at times deeply human, A Brown Man in Russia is a reminder to those who feel marginalized, hopeless, or endlessly divided that harmony is achievable even in the most unlikely of places.



Mikhail Bulgakov


Mikhail Bulgakov
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Author : Marietta Chudakova
language : en
Publisher: Glagoslav Publications
Release Date : 2019-08-30

Mikhail Bulgakov written by Marietta Chudakova and has been published by Glagoslav Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-08-30 with Biography & Autobiography categories.


Marietta Chudakova is an expert on Soviet literature and on the works of Mikhail Bulgakov in particular. Her biography of Bulgakov was first published in 1988 and remains the most authoritative and comprehensive study of the writer’s life ever produced. It has received acclaim for the journalistic style in which it is written: the author draws on unpublished manuscripts and early drafts of Bulgakov’s novels to bring the writer to life. She also explores archive documents and memoirs written by some of Bulgakov’s contemporaries so as to construct a comprehensive and nuanced portrait of the writer and his life and times. Marietta Chudakova casts light on Bulgakov’s life with an unrivalled eye for detail and a huge amount of affection for the writer and his works. Mikhail Bulgakov: The Life and Times will be of particular interest to international researchers studying Mikhail Bulgakov’s life and works, and is recommended to a broader audience worldwide. Translated from the Russian by Huw Davies Published by arrangement with ELKOST Intl. Literary Agency Published with the support of the Institute for Literary Translation, Russia Introduction by J.A.E. Curtis Proofreading by Kevin Bridge Publishers Maxim Hodak & Max Mendor