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Ivan Chistyakov's stunning DIARY OF A GULAG PRISON GUARD has just been published in France by Les Éditions Denoël as Journal d'un gardien du goulag (Traduit du russe par Luba Jurgenson, Préface de Irina Shcherbakova).
The Story about Ignatius the Cat, Fedya the Chimney-Sweep , and the Lonely Mouse, 2004
Rights sold: France - GALLIMARD, Hungary - MAGVETO, Russia - EKSMO, AST
New edition of Ulitskaya´s book released by AST in 2012
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Rights sold: France – ACTES SUD, Japan – ONGAKU NO TOMO, Russia – RUTENA, AZBOOKA, Spain – ACANTILADO
Richter shared with his younger friend the stories of his childhood, and recollections of his meetings with other celebrities (Britten, Fischer-Dieskau, Gavrilov, Michelangeli, Picasso, Prokofiev, Serkin, Sofronitski, Vedernikov, Yudina, etc.). He explained his vision of music, comparing it with other arts: painting (Ernst, Renoir, Schiele, Vermeer, etc..), literature (Balzac, Block, Maeterlinck, Mann, Ostrovsky, Proust, Racine, Rostand, etc..), cinema (Alexandrov, Chaplin, Cocteau, Kurosawa, Pasolini, etc..). Notes taken during or after these extremely interesting conversations Borisov has later converted into a book, thanks to which we can look into the inner world of Sviatoslav Richter, one of the most exciting figures on 20th century musical horizon.
ABOUT SVIATOSLAV RICHTER (1915-1997)
- The Italian critic Piero Rattalino has asserted that the only pianists comparable to Richter in the history of piano performance were Franz...
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