Aleshkovsky / Fusso Nikolai Nikolaevich and Camouflage

Two Novels
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-0-231-54845-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 100 Seiten

Reihe: Russian Library

Yuz Aleshkovsky turned Soviet reality into mad monologues whose unhinged speakers revealed everyday and cosmic truths. These two novels display his vivid imagination and unmistakable voice.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Aleshkovsky, Yuz

Fusso, Susanne

Weitere Mitwirkende

White, Duffield

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatur: Sammlungen, Anthologien
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Prosaautoren

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Introduction by Susanne Fusso
Nikolai Nikolaevich
Camouflage
Notes

Über Autor(innen)

Aleshkovsky Yuz:
Yuz Aleshkovsky was born in 1929 in Krasnoyarsk and grew up in Moscow. He served in the Soviet navy and was imprisoned from 1950 to 1953 for “violating discipline.” He published children's books but became best known for his songs and novels circulated in samizdat before he emigrated to the United States in 1979. His novels Kangaroo and The
Hand were published in English translation in the 1980s. In 2001 he received the Pushkin Prize of the Alfred Toepfer Foundation for his entire body of work. He lives in Middletown, Connecticut.Yuz Aleshkovsky was born in 1929 in Krasnoyarsk and grew up in Moscow. He served in the Soviet navy and was imprisoned from 1950 to 1953 for “violating discipline.” He published children’s books but became best known for his songs and novels circulated in samizdat before he emigrated to the United States in 1979. His works in English include The Hand (1989) and Kangaroo (1999).

Duffield White is professor emeritus of Russian, East European, and Eurasian studies at Wesleyan University. He is the translator of Tolstoi in the Sixties by Boris Eikhenbaum (1982).

Susanne Fusso is Marcus L. Taft Professor of Modern Languages and professor of Russian, East European, and Eurasian studies at Wesleyan University. She is the translator of Trepanation of the Skull by Sergey Gandlevsky (2014).