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THE KINGDOM OF AGAMEMNON, a novel by Vladimir Sharov
Rights sold: Bulgaria - SONM, Russia - AST
The novel’s title refers to the Greek tragedy of Agamemnon who, after his return from Troy, was killed by Aegisthus, the lover of his wife, Clytemnestra. The King of Agamemnon follows Nikolai Zhestovsky, a researcher and philosopher, whose modern life in the twentieth century, including current-day Russia, begins to mimic Agamemnon’s ancient tragedy. Critics praised Sharov’s last work for its profound philosophical reflections and unexpected historical parallels.
The novel sold 10,000 copies in Russia.
A perturbed chrysalis, collected essays by Sasha Sokolov (2007)
Rights sold: Canada – University of Toronto Press, Russia – AZBOOKA.
The consists of eleven essays and lectures written or delivered by Sokolov in 1980 –2006. Like his novels, Sokolov’s essays are stylistically ornate and often hermetic in content. They are extremely compact meditations both on the novels themselves and on Sokolov's rich interior worlds.
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