“This intimately funny and desperately sad novel opens with a parade of visitors to Ilya Ilich Oblomov’s Petersburg flat. Most of them are introduced, in this new translation, by the phrase “in walked”, which creates a wonderful sense of flatness, repetition and invasion. All but one of the visitors are busy in some way or [...]
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- Vsevolod Benigsen's "Movsar and the Terrorists" ...
- Andrei Gelasimov’s “The Lying Year” ...
- St. Petersburg Noir ...
- Mikhail Shishkin's Maidenhair ...
- Yuzefovich, “Cranes and Pygmies” ...
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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.