ELKOST International literary agency - An evening with Ludmila Ulitskaya in St. Petersburg

An evening with Ludmila Ulitskaya in St. Petersburg, December 6, 2012, in the The Grand Hall of Saint Petersburg Philharmonia.

The Grand Hall has a capacity of 1500 seats. It is one of the best known music halls in Russia, where F.Lizst, H.Berlioz, R.Wagner, A.Dvořák, J.Sibelius, C.-A.Debussy, R.Strauss, S.Rachmaninoff, S.Prokofiev, D.Shostakovich, A.Scriabin, G.Mahler, A.Rubinstein, K.Schumann, P.Viardo, P.Sarasate, A.Schoenberg, I.Stravinsky, B.Bartok, P.Hindemith, and many others performed.

An evening with Ludmila Ulitskaya in St. Petersburg

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Ulitskaya reads excerpts from her autobiographical book Discarded Relics (AST, 2012)

Book signing

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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...

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.

An evening with Ludmila Ulitskaya in St. Petersburg

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BEFORE AND DURING, a novel by Vladimir Sharov

Straight line, a novel by Vladimir Makanin (1967)