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Lizok's Bookshelf: Post-1917 Top Fiction Hits of Russian Literature: A Very Biased Russian Lit Reading List
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Reading ideas from Russian classic and contemporary fiction. Sunday, November 23, 2008. Post-1917 Top Fiction Hits of Russian Literature: A Very Biased Russian Lit Reading List. These are the books I’d want to teach in a survey course. I wrote about Один. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. And its popularity in this previous post. I respect One Day. But have always had more affinity for two of Solzhenitsyn’s longer novels: В. Which Barack Obama also lists as a favorite. Are also about prison camps.
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Lizok's Bookshelf: There’s a Reason They Call Them Shortlists: Yasnaya Polyana-2014
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Reading ideas from Russian classic and contemporary fiction. Tuesday, September 16, 2014. There’s a Reason They Call Them Short. The Yasnaya Polyana Prize announced its shortlists. Today… and these shortlists sure do put the short in the shortlist. Choosing a meager four books from the “XXI Century” long list. Of 41 books—winnowed down from 153 nominees—feels a little sad. Then again, according to jury chair Vladimir Tolstoy, the list includes. Only books the whole jury. 8217;s В сетях Твоих. See comment...
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Lizok's Bookshelf: The 2015 Read Russia Prize for Translations into English -- Shortlist
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Reading ideas from Russian classic and contemporary fiction. Thursday, May 21, 2015. The 2015 Read Russia Prize for Translations into English - Shortlist. Ah, a week of prize news! Read Russia announced, yesterday, the shortlist for the 2015 Read Russia Prize for Russian-to-English translations. The award will be presented in New York on May 29: I’m doubly looking forward to attending because Gary Saul Morson, who taught me War and Peace. 8217;s translation of Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina. Counterpoint Pr...
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Lisa's Other Bookshelf: December 2013
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Sunday, December 29, 2013. Minding the Animals in Ólafsson’s The Pets. I’m writing about Bragi Ólafsson. 8217;s The Pets. 8212;which I read in Janice Balfour’s translation of the original Icelandic Gæludýrin. The basic story of The Pets. Again: What’s not to love (again: for a reader like me, anyway) about a wonderfully absurd situation like that? Particularly given Emil’s sense of humor and Havard’s recklessness? But the next moment I am really glad that I am alone, all by myself. I always enjoy meeting...
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Lisa's Other Bookshelf: July 2014
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Monday, July 28, 2014. A Quick Run Through Running through Beijing. Every now and then I read a book and want to dispense with blogging and write something quick like, “Just read the book, you’ll enjoy it.” That’s how I feel about Xu Zechen’s Running through Beijing. On many levels, Running through Beijing. And Run, Lola, Run. It’s no wonder Two Lines Press made a movie card to send with the book. The online DVD playlist. What appealed to me most in Running through Beijing. What about the friendships?
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Lisa's Other Bookshelf: January 2014
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Sunday, January 26, 2014. The Banality of Evil, Once More: Monsieur Le Commandant. Romain Slocombe’s Monsieur Le Commandant: A Wartime Confession. Which I read in Jesse Browner. 8217;s translation from the original French, is one of the more sordid World War 2 novels I’ve read in some time. Most of Monsieur Le Commandant. Pétain and Hitler, 1940. Photo: Das Bundesarchiv, via Wikipedia. Husson—a World War 1 hero, committed Pétain. To say his daughter-in-law, Ilse, is German and Jewish, which makes Husson&...
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Lisa's Other Bookshelf: July 2013
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Sunday, July 28, 2013. Stories to Melt Memories: Here Comes Mrs. Kugelman. 8217;s Here Comes Mrs. Kugelman. Which I read in Philip Boehm’s colorful translation from the original German ( Und da kam Frau Kugelmann. As a book about finding ways to talk about frozen memories of the everyday and the horrors, the Holocaust, that erased the everyday. Thanks to its structure and mix of characters and stories, I think Mrs. Kugelman. PS A brief interview. What inspired you to write your first book? Making Up For ...
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Lisa's Other Bookshelf: Hello, Welcome, Review Policies, and Disclosures
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Saturday, July 10, 2010. Hello, Welcome, Review Policies, and Disclosures. Lisa’s Other Bookshelf is a companion blog to Lizok’s Bookshelf. A Russian literature blog that I began writing in 2007. I write about my non-Russian reading on Lisa’s Other Bookshelf. Review Policy and Philosophy. I write honest evaluations, opinions, and criticism of the books I read. I attempt to express both my personal feelings about the book (Did I like it? Favorite Types of Books. Novels from small presses. As a blogger and...
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Lisa's Other Bookshelf: The Banality of Evil, Once More: Monsieur Le Commandant
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Sunday, January 26, 2014. The Banality of Evil, Once More: Monsieur Le Commandant. Romain Slocombe’s Monsieur Le Commandant: A Wartime Confession. Which I read in Jesse Browner. 8217;s translation from the original French, is one of the more sordid World War 2 novels I’ve read in some time. Most of Monsieur Le Commandant. Pétain and Hitler, 1940. Photo: Das Bundesarchiv, via Wikipedia. Husson—a World War 1 hero, committed Pétain. To say his daughter-in-law, Ilse, is German and Jewish, which makes Husson&...
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Lisa's Other Bookshelf: March 2014
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Sunday, March 16, 2014. Light Reading That Wishes It Were a Little Heavier: Three Quick Takes. Keep me reading, the good news is that all three books are debuts: perhaps their authors will take more chances next time. Albena Stambolova’s Everything Happens as It Does. Which I read in Olga Nikolova’s translation of the Bulgarian novel Tova e kakto stava. The Book of Jonah. The car in which Heydrich was wounded. Finally, there’s Laurent Binet’s HHhH. Despite winning a Prix Goncourt du Premier Roman, HHhH.
