Ludmila Ulitskaya's screenplay JUST THE PLAGUE released in 2020 by AST in Russia, and in 2021 in Hungary by Magveto as Csak egy pestis (tr. Morcsányi Géza), in Germany by Hanser as Eine Seuche in der Stadt (tr. Ganna-Maria Braungardt), and in France by Gallimard as Ce n’était que la peste (tr. Sophie Benech).
Published by: Turkey - Da Yayıncılık (2004), USA - Central Books (1972)
Fazil Iskander is the author of multiple short stories and novelettes. He has published over 20 collections marked by vividness and fresh, graphic imagery.
Lyrical and humorous, deeply national but concerned with the human condition at large, often about children but mainly for adults, Fazil Iskander's writing abounds, like his native Abkhazia, in colour and contrasts. It is merriment and toil that make the earth beautiful, Iskander writes in one of his stories. These qualities are also typical of his characters, most of them drawn from his fellow countrymen, ever a mixture of gallantry and guile, humour and hard work. -- R.Daglish
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Publishers: France - JC LATTÉS (1981), Germany - Kindler (1969), SUHRKAMP (1976), VOLK UND WELT (1985, 1994), Die Andere Bibliothek (2016), Italy - RIZZOLI (1969), GIUNTINA (2009), Poland - CZYTELNIK (1957), Spain - MUCHNIK EDITORES (1978), USA/UK - POLYGLOT LIBRARY (1960), ELEK BOOKS (1965), Hungary - TEKA (1988)
Ehrenburg's The Stormy Life of Lasik Roitschwantz (1928) is a version of Jaroslav Hašek's The Good Soldier Svejk and Voltaire's Candide. The hero is a simple, good-natured Jewish ghetto tailor from Belorussia whose adventures take him through a half a dozen countries and several prisons. Lazar works as a rabbit breeder in Tula, rabbi in Frankfurt, police informer for Scotland Yard, film actor in Berlin, pioneer in Palestine, and painter in Paris. Ehrenburg satirizes among others the phony artists of the Parisian Latin Quarter and the speculators in the Weimar Republic.
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