ELKOST International literary agency - JUST PUBLISHED: The House That... by Mariam Petrosyan in Spain

The House That... award-winning novel by Mariam Petrosyan released in Spain by EDHASA as La casa de los otros translated by Xenia Dyakonova.

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Tiene tres plantas y está a las afueras. En un tiempo fue blanca, pero ahora la llaman la Casa Gris, por el color de su fachada… Nadie quiere que esté allí, preferirían que no existiera. Porque en esa casa gris existe un mundo mágico que tiene sus propias leyes. En ella viven niños de todo tipo, niños raros, abandonados por los adultos; niños discapacitados, mental o físicamente; niños que crecen allí dentro, que viven una vida intensa y llena de emociones y aventuras; niños que se enfrentan a los retos de la vida en su pequeño y complejo universo. En definitiva, niños que sueñan.

Y, cuando los sueños se convierten en realidad, los espacios y los tiempos se dilatan, se puede realizar viajes fantásticos, y existen los lugares prohibidos, las pociones mágicas, los amuletos y cualquier clase de mito o leyenda. El reto: decidir si vale la pena crecer y abandonar la Casa, o negarse a ello y permanecer en ella para siempre…

A medio camino entre lo fantástico, lo onírico y la realidad más cruda, Mariam Petrosjan nos presenta en La casa de los otros un mundo paralelo al nuestro, pero a la vez transversal, donde la felicidad parece un objetivo inalcanzable y la normalidad un reto inverosímil…

By Richter's Side. Dialogues with Sviatoslav Richter by Yuri Borisov (2003, 2011)

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...

Chekhov's Poetics (1971), a book of literary studies by Alexander Chudakov

Rights sold: World English rights - Ardis (reverted)

Originally published in Moscow in 1971, Chekhov's Poetics remains the best single-volume study devoted to Chekhov. In fact, anyone who attempts to stage or study Chekhov seriously must consult Cudakov—and the sooner the better.

Tightly and lucidly written, this relatively slender volume constitutes a gold mine of important facts, judicious commentaries, and sober judgments about Chekhov’s oeuvre—all substantiated by prodigious citations form the writer's work. Although demonstrating an impressive mastery of Russian and Western Chekhov scholarship, and occasionally quoting Chekhov’s letters, Chudakov depends exclusively on the stories and plays themselves to advance his persuasive arguments. We have here a close reading of Chekhov, meticulous in its detail but always cognizant of the larger issues which Chekhov’s complex, often elusive writing raises. The book is divided into two parts of almost equal length and moves from structure to idea in Chekhov. Part...

JUST PUBLISHED: The House That... by Mariam Petrosyan in Spain

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By Richter's Side. Dialogues with Sviatoslav Richter by Yuri Borisov (2003, 2011)

Chekhov's Poetics (1971), a book of literary studies by Alexander Chudakov