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Elena Kostioukovitch in Sofia, December 2025
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Lyudmila Ulitskaya awarded the Günter Grass-Preis 2023 for her life's work
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MEMORIAL human rights group and Ales Bialiatski got the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize
Ludmila Ulitskaya named a winner of the 2022 Formentor Prize
2022 – The Year of Józef Mackiewicz
NEW RELEASE: Yakhina's Zuleikha Opens Her Eyes in Norway
NEW RELEASE: Ulitskaya's The Big Green Tent in Japan
NEW RELEASE: OST in English
NEW RELEASE: Yakhina´s Train to Samarkand in Romania
MEMORIAL International awarded the 2021 JAN MICHALSKI PRIZE FOR LITERATURE
RIP Marietta Chudakova (1937-2021)

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  • New Year's Eve Party at the Boulgakov's, a novel by Olga Medvedkova (2021)

    Rights sold: France - Triartis Éditions

    Today, Mikhail Bulgakov without doubt is the most well-known Russian writer of the first half of the twentieth century. But let us recall that during his lifetime, Bulgakov  was hardly allowed by Bolsheviks to publish any of his writings or see theatrical productions based on his plays.
    Olga Medvedkova's semi-documentary novel New Year's Eve at the Bulgakov's shows us the inner cercle of Bulgakov and Elena's family at the midst of Stalinist purges. The moment, the beginning of 1939, was decisive in the career of Bulgakov, since he just completed a commissioned work that shold have turned the powerful Owner of the Kremlin towards him. But was it really so?
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    Mikhaïl Boulgakov est aujourd’hui, sans conteste, le plus grand écrivain russe de la première moitié du XXe siècle. Cette gloire internationale ne doit pas faire oublier qu’il ne put, de son vivant, presque rien publier de ses œuvres ni montrer sur scène ses productions théâtrales. Réveillon chez les Boulgakov nous fait pénétrer dans l’intimité de l’écrivain, de sa femme Elena et de leurs amis qui survivent (mais pour combien de temps encore ?) à la terreur stalinienne. Ce moment, le début de 1939, est décisif dans la carrière de Boulgakov, puisqu’il a entrepris un ouvrage qui, cette fois-ci, devrait recueillir l’assentiment du puissant maître du Kremlin. Mais, est-ce si sûr ? L'irréductible Boulgakov, un des rares hommes libres dans ces temps de servitude, de lâcheté et de flagornerie, saura-t-il courber son génie ? Quelle place un véritable créateur peut-il trouver face à un pouvoir totalitaire ?

    Olga Medvedkova, faisant revivre ce brillant milieu de l’intelligentsia moscovite, nous propose au-delà d'une plongée dans le temps, un voyage plus profond, au cœur de l’œuvre de Boulgakov, analysé de manière nouvelle, à la façon de son auteur qui se définissait lui-même comme mystique et satirique.

    Ce texte est un « récit véridique », une fiction où tout est vrai. Les mots sont exhumés des archives : leur diablerie dépasse même les inventions de l’auteur du Maître et Marguerite. Ce récit drôle, émouvant, effrayant, qui rappelle des faits que certains sont peut-être soucieux d’oublier aujourd’hui, parle du courage du vrai créateur, de l’intransigeance de la création et, plus largement, de la liberté de l’homme face à son temps et son destin.

     
     

     

     

     

     

     
     
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  • By Richter's Side. Dialogues with Sviatoslav Richter by Yuri Borisov (2003, 2011)

    Rights sold: France – ACTES SUD, Japan – ONGAKU NO TOMO, Russia – RUTENA, AZBOOKA, Spain – ACANTILADO

     

    Richter shared with his younger friend the stories of his childhood, and recollections of his meetings with other celebrities (Britten, Fischer-Dieskau, Gavrilov, Michelangeli, Picasso, Prokofiev, Serkin, Sofronitski, Vedernikov, Yudina, etc.). He explained his vision of music, comparing it with other arts: painting (Ernst, Renoir, Schiele, Vermeer, etc..), literature (Balzac, Block, Maeterlinck, Mann, Ostrovsky, Proust, Racine, Rostand, etc..), cinema (Alexandrov, Chaplin, Cocteau, Kurosawa, Pasolini, etc..). Notes taken during or after these extremely interesting conversations Borisov has later converted into a book, thanks to which we can look into the inner world of Sviatoslav Richter, one of the most exciting figures on 20th century musical horizon.

    ABOUT SVIATOSLAV RICHTER (1915-1997)

     

    - The Italian critic Piero Rattalino has asserted that the only pianists comparable to Richter in the history of piano performance were Franz Liszt and Ferruccio Busoni.

    - Glenn Gould called Richter one of "the most powerful musical communicators of our time".

    - Van Cliburn attended a Richter recital in 1958 in the Soviet Union. He reportedly cried during the recital and, upon returning to the United States, described Richter's playing as "the most powerful piano playing I have ever heard".

    - Arthur Rubinstein described his first exposure to Richter as follows: "It really wasn't anything out of the ordinary. Then at some point I noticed my eyes growing moist: tears began rolling down my cheeks."

    - Heinrich Neuhaus described Richter as follows: "His singular ability to grasp the whole and at the same time miss none of the smallest details of a composition suggests a comparison with an eagle who from his great height can see as far as the horizon and yet single out the tiniest detail of the landscape."

    - Dmitri Shostakovich wrote of Richter: "Richter is an extraordinary phenomenon. The enormity of his talent staggers and enraptures. All the phenomena of musical art are accessible to him."

    - Vladimir Horowitz said: "Of the Russian pianists, I like only one, Richter"

    - Pierre Boulez wrote of Richter: "His personality was greater than the possibilities offered to him by the piano, broader than the very concept of complete mastery of the instrument."

    - Gramophone critic Bryce Morrison described Richter as follows: "Idiosyncratic, plain-speaking, heroic, reserved, lyrical, virtuosic and perhaps above all, profoundly enigmatic, Sviatoslav Richter remains one of the greatest recreative artists of all time."

     

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