Nine short stories with madness in the background
Maya Kucherskaya, Maria Galina, Sukhbat Aflatuni, Ksenia Buksha, Anna Starobinets, Natalia Mieszczaninova, Sergey Nosov, Sergey Kuznetsov, Marina Stepnova step out of the shadow of the big names of Russian literary classics and with their writing uncompromisingly go beyond the beaten track of traditional works.
It is not only the crimes, intrigue, mysticism and nihilism so familiar to us from the works of the masters, but above all the multiplicity of emotions, the playfulness of the genre and the entry into the world of the more contemporary reader. These stories are Russian literary allegories about the here and now.
‘Hiding in the shadows beneath the side of stately, sluggish and old-fashioned Russian literature grows a literature of a completely different genre - younger, more cheerful and, in a positive way, universal, all-human. It is this literature - feminine rather than masculine, entertaining rather than serious, topical rather than traditional - that I wish to present to Polish readers.’
- says Galina Jozefovich, one of Russia's most well-known and respected literary critics, who made the short story selection.
‘Nine short stories with madness in the background’ is the result of the innovative project ’Words to Words. Polish-Russian School of Translation’ aimed at educating a new generation of translators and promoting contemporary Russian writers.
Out of print.
