ELKOST International literary agency - May 20-23, 2012, Ludmila Ulitskaya in Warsaw

Daniel Stein, tłumacz, 2012 Poland, Weltbild Polska

Ludmila Ulitskaya participates to the launch of Polish translation of her award-winning novel Daniel Stein, Interpreter released earlier this month by Świat Książki (Weltbild Polska) during the 3rd Warsaw Book Fair as Daniel Stein, tłumacz.

During her short stay in Warsaw, along with multiple scheduled TV, radio and newspaper interviews, Ulitskaya will make the following public appearances:

TUESDAY, MAY 22nd

12.00 – meeting at the Russian Literature Institute, 4 Szturmowa Street, room 108
Host: prof. Alicja Wołodźko-Butkiewicz

6 pm – the Book Launch, Dom Spotkań z Historią, 20 Karowa Street
(host: Anna Żebrowska, excerpts from the book read by Ignacy Gogolewski)

Baize-Covered Table with Decanter, a novel by Vladimir Makanin (1993)

Rights sold: China - LITZIAN, France - GALLIMARD, AWorld English - Readers International,

Winner of the 1993 Russian Booker Award

Baize-Covered Table with Decanter describes one man's psychological torture as he faces an impending visit to be interrogated at the Table for a perceived, minor infraction. Makanin describes in some detail each character present at the Table, their purpose, techniques, and psychology. He also descibes in flashbacks the physical torture of suspects in Soviet days past and the mental torture of some as they are forcibly drugged in state mental hospitals. The book contains a few sections with an adult material not appropriate for minors; one scene in particular describes the sexual abuse of a corpse and is really quite disturbing.

Makanin does a good job describing the moral corruption of Russian/Soviet society. Neighbor is turned...

Biography of Mikhail Bulgakov, by Marietta Chudakova (1988, NF)

Rights sold: China - CCTP, Italy - ODOYA, Poland - Wydawnictwo Akademickie SEDNO, Ukraine - FOLIO, World English - GLAGOSLAV

MariettaChudakova’s Biography of Mikhail Bulgakov (first published in 1988), by now is THE ONLY FULL-LENGTH STUDY OF BULGAKOV’S LIFE. It remains the most important and reliable source of information about the writer. In her fundamental work Chudakova recreates the milestones of Bulgakov’s personal and artistic life against the historical background of his turbulent époque. The book is written in a vivid journalistic style, and contains abundant quotes from unpublished Bulgakov’s manuscripts and draft redactions of his novels, archive documents, and memoirs of writer’s contemporaries.

"They must know... They must know," anxious about the fate of his unpublished books, Bulgakov whispered to his wife Yelena on his deathbed. One of the main ideas of his central novel The Master and Margarita is that of justice, which inevitably triumphs in...

May 20-23, 2012, Ludmila Ulitskaya in Warsaw

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Baize-Covered Table with Decanter, a novel by Vladimir Makanin (1993)

Biography of Mikhail Bulgakov, by Marietta Chudakova (1988, NF)