ELKOST International literary agency - 'La mia lotta per la libertà' by Khodorkovsky presented in Italy on March 26 and 29, 2012

Presentation of Mikhail Khodorkovsky's I WILL FIGHT FOR MY FREEDOM released in Italy by Marsilio in February, 2012, as La mia lotta per la libertà. Un uomo solo contro il regime di Putin will take place on March 26th, 2012, in Circolo dei Lettori di Torino at via Bogino, 9, Torino, with the participation of

- Marco Buttino professore ordinario di Storia dell’Europa orientale, Università di Torino

- Anna Zafesova «La Stampa»

Another presentation will take place on March 29th, 2012, in Sala Montanelli (via Solferino 26/A, Milano, Italy) with the participation of:

- Fabrizio Dragosei (Corriere della Sera)

- Francesca Gori (Memorial Italia)

- Ludmila Ulitskaya

Francesca Gori
Memorial Italia

A perturbed chrysalis, collected essays by Sasha Sokolov (2007)

Rights sold: Canada – University of Toronto Press, Russia – AZBOOKA.

The book consists of eleven essays and lectures written or delivered by Sokolov in 1980 –2006. Like his novels, Sokolov’s essays are stylistically ornate and often hermetic in content. They are extremely compact meditations both on the novels themselves and on Sokolov's rich interior worlds.

Culture and Explosion by Yuri Lotman (NF)

Rights sold: Czech Republic - HOST, Spain - GEDISA

Originally published in Russian in 1992, a year before Lotman's death, Culture and Explosion puts forth a fundamental theory: the semiotics of culture. Proceeding from a model of communication, Lotman extends the work of the renowned Tartu-Moscow school that he founded, showing not only how culture can be observed and described, but also how it can be governed and guided. In fact, as Lotman demonstrates with copious examples, the modelling system of culture has an immeasurably strong influence on the way that humans experience "reality". As usual, Lotman's erudition is brought to bear on the theory of culture, and the book comprises a host of well-chosen illustrations from history, literature, art and right across the humanities.

'La mia lotta per la libertà' by Khodorkovsky presented in Italy on March 26 and 29, 2012

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A perturbed chrysalis, collected essays by Sasha Sokolov (2007)

Culture and Explosion by Yuri Lotman (NF)