This year, as always, we feature our authors at the Frankfurt Book Fair. We'll be glad to see you from 15th to 19th of October at the LitAg Center.
Our table this year is J9
Featured titles
TEMPTATION BY REVOLUTION (RUSSIAN SUPREME POWER), collected essays by Vladimir Sharov
Rights sold: Russia - ARSIS BOOKS
The volume shows us the author as a philosopher of Russian geopolitics. Its nine essays develop a unified rationale for Russia’s fate from the Time of Troubles to the death of Stalin, driven largely by an internal, eschatological dynamic. Exemplary is an essay from 2000, “Capital and Province”, on the capital (the seat of Power) versus the provinces (home of the people) as two conceptual modes. Power identifies with heaven and ravages the earth even while constantly expanding over it, while the provinces align with the soil, hover over it, nurture it—and neither is much interested in the other except instrumentally, each side fearing the other with “areciprocal terror, persecution mania and mutual flight”.
Other entries range from hardcore history to opinion pieces: on Ivan IV’s oprichnina; on Saint George the Dragon-Slayer; a history of absolute power in Russia titled; several pages of political insights...
Read moreRabbits and Boa Constrictors, a novel by Fazil Iskander (1982, 1987)
Published by: Estonia - Perioodika (1989), Croatia - Svjetlost (1989), Czech Republic - Jonathan Livingston (2017), France - Rivages (1990), Italy - Atmosphere libri (2013), Spain - Círculo de Lectores (1991), USA - Ardis (1989), Overlook Press (2014)
A humorous tale about the deteriorating relations between two groups: the rabbits and boa constrictors, Iskander's novella, like Animal Farm, is also a humorous critique of power.
The L.A. Times says "Iskander takes a worthy place in the tradition of Russian satirists, the Gogol of DEAD SOULS, the Nabokov of LOLITA."
This novel originally appeared in Russian in the West in 1982.
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