Daniel A. Rabuzzi writes Lobster & Canary, a blog about speculative, fantastical and surreal fiction, poetry, and visual arts, fairy tales, oral epic, and children’s literature. He’s included Olga Slavnikova’s 2017 among his favorite novels read in 2010: Olga Slavnikova, 2017 (Overlook, 2010, trans. from Russian by Marian Schwartz). The "most difficult-to-classify book of the [...]
Karen Vanuska, in her “writer’s journal of her reading and writing life,” has posted a flattering review of my translation of Olga Slavnikova’s 2017: It wouldn’t be summer if I didn’t pick up a Russian novel. Though I received my review copy of 2017 by Olga Slavnikova back in March, I decided to save it [...]
Anna Mundow gives a glowing review of my translation of Olga Slavnikova’s 2017 at barnesandnoblereview.com: Olga Slavnikova’s profound new novel 2017 evokes, with uncanny vividness, a Russia of the near-future in which a character reasonably wonders “…how much about human beings is human?” . . . To read the rest, click here.
PW has given Moscow Noir (Akashic Books) a starred review and mentions Anuchkin’s “Field of a Thousand Corpses,” one of several I translated for the anthology: As literary agents Smirnova and Goumen note in their introduction to this excellent entry in Akashic's noir series, “A noir tradition does not yet really exist in Russia.” Still, [...]
2017 By Olga Slavnikova Translated by Marian Schwartz Overlook Press, 2010 In a translation funded by the National Endowment for the Arts and executed to perfection by prize-winning translator Marian Schwartz, 2017 is part literary romance, part political thriller, and a stunning tale of adventure, fantasy and obsession. Set in the near future, [...]
The graphics used on this site were inspired by the work of Liubov Popova (1889-1924), a Russian artist and designer influenced by Constructivism and Futurism, as seen in her biography, by D.V. Sarabianov and N.L. Adaskina, Liubov Popova, translated by Marian Schwartz and published by Harry N. Abrams in 1990.