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

Gogoliana, collected essays by Vladislav Otroshenko (2013)

Rights sold: Russia - Olga Morozova publishing house, AST; Slovenia - LUD, World English - Dalkey Archive Press

These essays came about in response to a question asked of contemporary writers by the magazine Znamia: "Is Gogol's creative experience relevant today (and to you personally) and, if so, how?" The answer, writes Vladislav Otroshenko, that struck him immediately consisted of two sentences: "Gogol died of literature. That is what must be known if we are to know whether Gogol's creative experience is relevant—today, tomorrow—to anyone personally."

Ancestor, a novel by Vladimir Makanin (1982)

Rights sold: Germany - Volk u. Welt, Spain - Alfaguara, Marbot

A satirical vision of the Soviet Union at the times of the Thaw.

Central figure of Makanin´s Ancestor is Old Yakushkin, a healer who has the gift of curing the terminally ill pacients abandoned by official medicine. His healing methods cannot be less orthodox: he waits for the patient to have a crisis to yell at him, shake him, torment his spirit until all his resistance is broken. The satisfactory cure of the dying man is obtained on the basis of terrible speeches and very little food. With irony and pathos, wit and malice, Makanin introduces us to the feverish Yakushkin in all his heartbreaking spiritual evolution: a young playboy, he was accused of fraud and confined to a labor camp in Siberia, where by accident he discovered in himself a healing gift. Makanin's hero recalls the great protagonists of the classical...

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

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Gogoliana, collected essays by Vladislav Otroshenko (2013)

Ancestor, a novel by Vladimir Makanin (1982)