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XXVII EDIZIONE DEL PREMIO GRINZANE CAVOUR
Cerimonia di premiazione
Sabato 14 giugno 2008, ore 16.30, Castello di Grinzane Cavour (Cuneo)
Al Castello di Grinzane Cavour, nelle Langhe, sabato 14 giugno saranno premiati i vincitori della XXVII edizione del Premio Grinzane Cavour patrocinato dalla Regione Piemonte , dalla Fondazione CRT , dalla Città di Torino e dalla Provincia di Torino .
Saranno presenti gli autori designati dalla Giuria dei Critici lo scorso gennaio.
Per la narrativa italiana:
Michele Mari Verderame Einaudi
Elisabetta Rasy L’estranea Rizzoli
Serena Vitale L’imbroglio del turbante Mondadori
Per la narrativa straniera:
Bernardo Atxaga (Spagna) Il libro di mio fratello Einaudi
Ingo Schulze (Germania) Vite nuove Feltrinelli
Ljudmila Ulickaja (Russia) Sinceramente vostro, Šurik Frassinelli
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BEFORE AND DURING, a novel by Vladimir Sharov
Rights sold: China - PEKING UNIVERSITY PRESS, France - PHÉBUS, Italy - VOLAND, Serbia - UTOPIA, World English - DEDALUS
Set in a psychiatric clinic in Moscow in the long decades of late-Soviet stagnation, Before and During sweeps the reader away from its dismal surroundings on a series of fantastical excursions into the Russian past. The novel invokes real historical events and people (Tolstoy, Madame de Staël, Saint John of Kronstadt, Alexander Scriabin, and Stalin, among others), swirling them into a phantasmagoric alternative chronology. Stories germinate within other stories, unfolding in astonishing variations.
We meet Leo Tolstoy’s twin brother, eaten by the great writer in his mother’s womb, only to be born as Tolstoy’s ‘son’; the philosopher-hermit Nikolai Fyodorov, who believed that the common task of humanity was the physical resurrection of their ancestors; a self-replicating Madame de Staël who, during her second life, is carried through plague-ridden Russia in a...
Read moreExperiences, collected stories by Marina Vishneventskaya
Rights sold: Germany – DTV (anthology rights), France – ACTES SUD, FAYARD (anthology rights), Italy – DI RENZO, AVAGLIANO (anthology rights), Hungary – GABO (anthology rights), USA – COLORADO (anthology rights)
The problematics of female introspection reaches in Vishnevetskaya’s Experiences its climactic concentration. These unhappy allegorical stories, told in the first person, depict subsidiary and “background” characters, marginal individuals belonging to various social and age groups. The title of each novella in the book corresponds to the initials of the “narrator,” which usually remain undeciphered, and a hinting phrase about a unique experience, which she or he will be sharing with the reader. Structurally, each piece is reminiscent of a confessional monologue about a certain traumatic or healing encounter, which through the process of revelation — or overcoming of the self — construes the female identity in its completeness. Almost all of Vishnevetskaya’s descriptions of mundane experiences —grievance, hope...
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