Russia – The Modern Novel

Sergei Lebedev: Год кометы (The Year of the Comet)

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Post published:4 January 2023
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The latest addition to my website is Sergei Lebedev's Год кометы (The Year of the Comet). Our unnamed hero is born in the later days of the Soviet Union and…

Vassily Aksyonov: Апельсины из Марокко [Oranges from Morocco]

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Post published:7 December 2022
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The latest addition to my website is Vassily Aksyonov's Апельсины из Марокко [Oranges from Morocco]. This book, Aksyonov's second novel ,was something of a cult book in the Soviet Union,…

Vasily Grossman: Народ бессмертен (The People Immortal; No Beautiful Nights)

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Post published:26 September 2022
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The latest addition to my website is Vasily Grossman's Народ бессмертен (The People Immortal; No Beautiful Nights) . The book had been translated into English in 1945 but this version…

Vladimir Sorokin: Теллурия (Telluria)

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Post published:10 August 2022
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The latest addition to my website is Vladimir Sorokin's Теллурия (Telluria). This novel is set in a future where Russia and Europe have splintered into smaller states and seem to…

Sergey Kuznetsov: Хоровод воды (The Round Dance of Water)

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Post published:2 August 2022
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The latest addition to my website is Sergey Kuznetsov's Хоровод воды (The Round Dance of Water). This is a novel that tells the story of an extended family, from the…

Yuri Felsen: Обман (Deceit)

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Post published:27 June 2022
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The latest addition to my website is Yuri Felsen's Обман (Deceit). This novel was first published in 1930 and is one of three surviving novels by Felsen, others being lost…

Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky: Клуб убийц букв (The Letter Killers Club)

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Post published:21 May 2022
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The latest addition to my website is Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky's Клуб убийц букв (The Letter Killers Club). A successful author who has succeeded because he got rid of all his books…

Eugene Vodolazkin: Брисбен (Brisbane)

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Post published:6 May 2022
Post category:Music Russia The Modern Novel website Ukraine
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The latest addition to my website is Eugene Vodolazkin's Брисбен (Brisbane). The story is told in alternating chapters, the first telling of the early life of our hero Gleb Yanovsky,…

Vladimir Sorokin: Сердца Четырех (Their Four Hearts)

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Post published:22 April 2022
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The latest addition to my website is Vladimir Sorokin's Сердца Четырех (Their Four Hearts). This is the first of apparently eight Sorokin novels that will come out in English translation…

Vladimir Sorokin: День опричника (Day of the Oprichnik)

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Post published:7 April 2022
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The latest addition to my website is Vladimir Sorokin's День опричника (Day of the Oprichnik). This novel is set a few years in the future. Russia now has a Tsar…