Marian Schwartz » Lizok http://marianschwartz.com Translations from the Russian Mon, 05 Jul 2010 22:12:32 +0000 en hourly 1 Mining the Human Landscape in Slavnikova’s 2017 http://marianschwartz.com/2010/01/mining-the-human-landscape-in-slavnikovas-2017/ http://marianschwartz.com/2010/01/mining-the-human-landscape-in-slavnikovas-2017/#comments Wed, 13 Jan 2010 13:23:04 +0000 mbs http://marianschwartz.com/2010/01/mining-the-human-landscape-in-slavnikovas-2017/ image thumb3 Mining the Human Landscape in Slavnikova’s 2017 Lizok’s Bookshelf has run the first review I’ve seen of my translation of Olga Slavnikova’s forthcoming novel, 2017, which Overlook Press is publishing in March:

Olga Slavnikova’s Booker-winning 2017 is so tough to describe that I think I’ll do something very lazy and begin with words that compactly list some of its themes: rock hound, translucence, rubies, Looking Glass (beyond), death, carnival, existentialism, false, genuine, mountain spirits, nature, reality, emptiness, illegal, companionship, revolution, secrets, Bazhov… more

]]> http://marianschwartz.com/2010/01/mining-the-human-landscape-in-slavnikovas-2017/feed/ 0 Praise for Yuzefovich’s Latest http://marianschwartz.com/2010/01/praise-for-yuzefovichs-latest/ http://marianschwartz.com/2010/01/praise-for-yuzefovichs-latest/#comments Sat, 02 Jan 2010 17:58:33 +0000 mbs http://marianschwartz.com/2010/01/praise-for-yuzefovichs-latest/ Lisa Hayden Espenschade of Lizok's Bookshelf:  Reading Ideas from Classic and Contemporary Russian Fiction raves about Leonid Yuzefovich’s Cranes and Pygmies, which won the 2009 Big Book award—and which she read in the original Russian.  As a bonus, she recommends his story, “The Storm,” which appeared in my translation in Life Stories, a collection from Russian Information Services.

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