ELKOST International literary agency - Russian memories of the Short Twentieth Century: war and labour camps (GULAG), Bookcity, Milano, 17/11/2016

Memorie russe dal secolo breve: la guerra e il gulag

Coordina Elda Garetto

Con Caterina Ciccotti, Daniela Di Sora, Elena Kostioukovitch

Due storie di individui sotto il peso della storia e dello stato: Elena Rževskaja, Memorie di una interprete di guerra (Voland Editore, Roma 2015); trilogia di Oleg Pavlov: Capitano della steppa (Meridiano Zero, Padova 2016), Il caso Matjušin (Meridiano Zero, Padova 2016); Requiem per un soldato ((Meridiano Zero, Padova 2016). Le memorie della giovane interprete militare, che, dopo aver attraversato la Russia occidentale sconvolta dal conflitto, si troverà sul fronte e poi a Varsavia e Berlino, testimone della misteriosa vicenda del riconoscimento del corpo carbonizzato di Hitler, vengono affiancate alla trilogia narrativa Racconti degli ultimi giorni: un resoconto semiautobiografico cadenzato da un delicato black humour, capace di immergerci nei tragici abissi in cui l’esercito russo e i campi di prigionia sono sprofondati nei cruciali anni antecedenti alla dissoluzione del colosso sovietico.

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A Gipsy Fortune, a novel by Ilya Mitrofanov (1991)

Rights sold: Germany - Volk und Welt, France – Rocher, Italy - ISBN, Yugoslavia - Rad, Spain - Lumen

"A Gipsy Fortune" is the masterful first-person narrative of a poetic love story between a young half-Gipsy woman Sabina grown up in a Tzigane village Karagmeth adjacent to a small Moldavian town Achillea located on the bank of Danube, and a local talented artist Bogdan suffering a heavy form of maniacal-depressive psychosis in the Soviet Union of the post-WWII period.

Le Bonheur tsigane raconte une âme irréductible à l'embrigadement, la découverte par un regard naïf et perspicace de mondes inconnus: celui, exotique, de la Moldavie où se côtoient Roumains, Russes, Tsiganes, artisans et paysans dont les traditions et les aspirations restent infiniment étrangères au communisme imposé par le régime soviétique; celui, implacable, des tribus tsiganes; celui, hallucinant, de l'incarcération psychiatrique. Le Bonheur tsigane c'est, par antiphrase, la malchance collant au destin...

Get Lost, Crocodile, a novel by Marina Vishneventskaya (2002)

In Vishnevetskaya’s Came the Moon out of Mist and Get Lost, Crocodile! the search for female identity is formulated as a drama in the genre of lyric parable. The heroines question what it means to “be a woman” in the contradicting societal ideologies of the post-Soviet epoch. The distorted implementation of the laws of capitalist consumption often does not coincide with the patriarchal model of the family, which, in turn, is discredited by cynical views of the Soviet citizen. According to Vishnevetskaya, the heroine can be “freed from the spell,” in other words reveal her essence, or “extinguish”— erase that which is overly incomprehensible. These metaphysical operations either unearth the woman’s essence, or turn her into an automaton. Notably, revealing the trapped female essence or vice versa, repressing it is carried out not so much by the external world, not by the man whom she chose as a lover or...

Russian memories of the Short Twentieth Century: war and labour camps (GULAG), Bookcity, Milano, 17/11/2016

http://www.bookcitymilano.it/eventi/2016/memorie-russe-dal-secolo-breve-la-guerra-e-il-gulag