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08 - 11 May 2008
Tartumaa, Tartu
Literature Festival "Prima Vista"
Literature Festival "Prima Vista" takes place for the 5th time this year. The festival is a party for all who appreciate books and literature and who love to read. The programme includes various events in Tartu.
Programme:
Thursday, 8. May – Library Day
11.00-19.00 Park Library (in the park in the town centre)
11.00-18.00 Utlib Market
12.00 Opening of the festival (in front of Tartu University Library)
13.00-17.00 Forum "Library World" (Athena Centre). Lecture by Ludmila Ulitskaya .
18.00 A discussion with Ludmila Ulitskaya : "Of the Interactions between literature and Research" (Tartu Literature House)
20.00 Evening with poet Doris Kareva (Tartu University Cafe)
Friday, 9. May - Translation Day
10.00-19.00 Park Library (in the park in the town centre)
11.00-18.00 Utlib Market
12.00-16.00 Symposium "The Art of Comprehending: of Translations and Translating" (Tartu Literature House). Lecture by Elena Kostioukovitch.
16.00 Discussion with Ludmilla Ulitskaya and Elena Kostioukovitch (big auditorium of the Old Anatomy Building of the University of Tartu)
16.00 Translation contest (Tartu Literature House)
19.30 Concert of Tõnu Trubetsky (in the park in the town centre)
22.00 Night Cinema
Location:
Tartu University Library, W. Struve St. 1
Athena Centre, Küütri St. 1
Tartu Literature House, Vanemuise St. 19
Tartu University Cafe, Ülikooli St. 20
Tartu City Library, Kompanii S
Contact:
NGO Literature Festival Prima Vista, Marja Unt
(+372) 742 7079
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http://kirjandusfestival.tartu.ee
Featured titles
Straight line, a novel by Vladimir Makanin (1967)
Rights sold: Slovakia - Slovak Writer,
Straight Line is a debut Makanin´s novel published in 1965. In it, Makanin recounts a love story of a young Soviet scientist Vladimir, and his older colleague Emma.
Read moreEscape Hatch & The Long Road Ahead: Two Novellas by Vladimir Makanin (1979)
Rights sold: Finland - SN-kirjat, France - BELFOND, Germany - Neuer Malik, Italy - Edizioni e/o, World English - ARDIS, Spain - Siruela, Sweden - NORSTEDTS,
Shertlisted for the 1992 Russian Booker Prize
The book, which contains two dystopian novellas (written in 1991), indicates that, directly or indirectly, Makanin has been influenced by Evgeny Zamyatin, the author of We, a book that anticipated in great detail Brave New World and 1984. (Actually, Zamyatin's a better writer than Huxley or Orwell, who both appropriated details of We's plot.)
Zamyatin and Makanin (born 1937) also share a background in science and mathematics. Zamyatin worked for a while as a naval engineer, in fact. In the novella Escape Hatch (Лаз), the protagonist, a mathematician named Klyucharyov, travels through a tunnel from a deteriorating aboveground city, where public order hardly exists, to an underground community where residents live comfortably and safely but seem on the edge of some crisis. The Long Road Ahead (Долог наш...
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