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He and She, a novel by Vladimir Makanin (1987)
Rights sold: Spain - Alfaguara, Cirulo de Lectores, Sweden - Bromberg
Main heroes of Makanin's 1987 novel He and She (Odin i odna) are "shestidesiatniki" Gennadii Goloshchekov and Ninel', two idealistic people who were involved in student politics during the 1950s, and who could never bring themselves to kow-tow to the regime, people who realized that ‘the intellect and conformism arc two incompatible things, Salieri’. They are depicted as innately honourable, but the harsh spotlight of Makanin’s prose shows them also to be pathetic and even farcical. Ninel' is always bathetically tormented by a sense of guilt over trifles, usually involving her co-workers. Gennadii is the kind of man who gets out of bed late at night to rescue a stranger whom his own drinking companion, Daev, confessed he had abandoned in a snowdrift. Gennadii the knight-errant then finds himself in the snowdrift — pushed in by an ungrateful rescuee who...
Read moreA Gipsy Fortune, a novel by Ilya Mitrofanov (1991)
Rights sold: Germany - Volk und Welt, France – Rocher, Italy - ISBN, Yugoslavia - Rad, Spain - Lumen
"A Gipsy Fortune" is the masterful first-person narrative of a poetic love story between a young half-Gipsy woman Sabina grown up in a Tzigane village Karagmeth adjacent to a small Moldavian town Achillea located on the bank of Danube, and a local talented artist Bogdan suffering a heavy form of maniacal-depressive psychosis in the Soviet Union of the post-WWII period.
Le Bonheur tsigane raconte une âme irréductible à l'embrigadement, la découverte par un regard naïf et perspicace de mondes inconnus: celui, exotique, de la Moldavie où se côtoient Roumains, Russes, Tsiganes, artisans et paysans dont les traditions et les aspirations restent infiniment étrangères au communisme imposé par le régime soviétique; celui, implacable, des tribus tsiganes; celui, hallucinant, de l'incarcération psychiatrique. Le Bonheur tsigane c'est, par antiphrase, la malchance collant au destin...
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