Télécharger le livre :  Chevengur
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'Platonov is an extraordinary writer, perhaps the most brilliant Russian writer of the twentieth century' New York Review of BooksThe Soviet Don Quixote, Chevengur is now seen by many Russian writers as Russia's greatest novel of the last century. This is the first...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2023-11-30

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Télécharger le livre :  Stalingrad
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'One of the great novels of the 20th century' ObserverIn April 1942, Hitler and Mussolini plan the huge offensive on the Eastern Front that will culminate in the greatest battle in human history.Hundreds of miles away, Pyotr Vavilov receives his call-up papers and...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2019-06-06

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Télécharger le livre :  The Penguin Book of Russian Poetry
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An enchanting collection of the very best of Russian poetry, edited by acclaimed translator Robert Chandler together with poets Boris Dralyuk and Irina Mashinski. In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, poetry's pre-eminence in Russia was unchallenged,...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2015-02-26

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Télécharger le livre :  Soul
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TRANSLATED AND WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ROBERT AND ELIZABETH CHANDLER'For the mind, everthing is in the future' Platonov once wrote; 'for the heart, everything is in the past'. The protagonist of Soul is a young man torn between these opposing desires, sent as a kind of...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2014-09-30

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Télécharger le livre :  The Railway
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Set mainly in Uzbekistan between 1900 and 1980, The Railway introduces to us the inhabitants of the small town of Gilas on the ancient Silk Route. Among those whose stories we hear are Mefody-Jurisprudence, the town's alcoholic intellectual; Father Ioann, a Russian...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2014-07-31

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Télécharger le livre :  The Return and Other Stories
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"Reading Platonov, one gets a sense of the relentless, implacable absurdity built into the language and with each...utterance, that absurdity deepens" - Joseph BrodskyPeople are on the move in all ten stories in this collection, coming home as in "The Return", leaving...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2014-07-10

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Télécharger le livre :  Happy Moscow
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TRANSLATED AND WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ROBERT CHANDLERMoscow in the 1930s is a symbol of Soviet paradise; a fairy-tale capital where, in Stalin's words, 'life has become better, life has become merrier". Beautiful, passionate, Moscow Chestnova bears her captial's name,...

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Parution : 2014-07-10

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Télécharger le livre :  The Foundation Pit
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TRANSLATED BY ROBERT AND ELIZABETH CHANDLER AND OLGA MEERSONPlatonov's dystopian novel describes the lives of a group of Soviet workers who believe they are laying the foundations for a radiant future. As they work harder and dig deeper, their optimism turns to violence...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2014-03-31

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Télécharger le livre :  An Armenian Sketchbook
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Few writers had to confront so many of the last century's mass tragedies as Vasily Grossman. He is likely to be remembered, above all, for the terrifying clarity with which he writes about the Shoah, the Battle of Stalingrad and the Terror Famine in the Ukraine. An...

Editeur : Maclehose Press
Parution : 2013-07-04

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Télécharger le livre :  Russian Magic Tales from Pushkin to Platonov
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'She turned into a frog, into a lizard, into all kinds of other reptiles and then into a spindle'In these tales, young women go on long and difficult quests, wicked stepmothers turn children into geese and tsars ask dangerous riddles, with help or hindrance from magical...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2012-12-06

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Télécharger le livre :  The Road
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By the author of Life and Fate, now a major Radio 4 drama starring Kenneth Branagh. Vasily Grossman is widely recognized as one of the outstanding literary figures of the twentieth century. The short fiction collected here - satire, comedy, tragedy and pure narrative -...

Editeur : Maclehose Press
Parution : 2011-08-25

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Télécharger le livre :  Life And Fate (Vintage Classic Russians Series)
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Life and Fate is an epic tale of twentieth-century Russia told through the fate of a single family, the Shaposhnikovs, from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Stalingrad.As the battle of Stalingrad looms, Grossman's characters must work out their destinies in a...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2011-04-30

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Télécharger le livre :  Everything Flows
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'Everything Flows is as important a novel as anything written by Solzhenitsyn, and Robert Chandler's superb translation makes it a joy to read'Antony BeevorIvan Grigoryevich has been in the Gulag for thirty years. Released after Stalin's death, he finds that the years...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2010-05-06

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Télécharger le livre :  Russian Short Stories from Pushkin to Buida
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From the reign of the Tsars in the early 19th century to the collapse of the Soviet Union and beyond, the short story has long occupied a central place in Russian culture. Included are pieces from many of the acknowledged masters of Russian literature - including...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2005-05-26

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