ELKOST International literary agency - Ludmila Ulitskaya in France, September 2014

In September, 2014, Ludmila Ulitskaya will be a guest of honor of Les Correspondances Manosque literary festival in France.

On Wednesday, September 24, at 18.00 Ulitskaya will be presenting the French edition of her Imago / Under the Green Tent novel released earlier this year by Gallimard as Le Chapiteau vert, for details see: http://correspondances-manosque.org/fiche_programme/grand-entretien-avec-ludmila-oulitskaia/

Later, Ulitskaya will also make several public appearances in Paris:

On September 26th, at the INALCO (for details see http://www.inalco.fr/evenement/intelligentsia-face-pouvoir)

LU Paris sept2014

On Spetember 27 at 17:30: meeting and book signing at Librairie Antipodes, 8 rue Robert Schuman, Enghien-les-Bains

Accompanied by Sophie Benech

On September 29 at the Maison de la Poésie,

Passage Molière 157, rue Saint-Martin - 75003 Paris

Ludmila Oulitskaïa – Le Chapiteau vert Rencontre animée par Kerenn Elkaïm - Interprète : Sophie Benech

for details see http://www.maisondelapoesieparis.com/programmes/

Sergei Prokofiev, a biography, by Igor Vishnevetsky (2009, NF)

Rights sold: Russia - Molodaya Gvardia, World English - GLAGOSLAV

“A classical composer is a mad person composing music, which is not clear to his own generation”, the brilliant Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev, whose 120th birth anniversary will be marked on April 23rd, used to say. However, the date itself is Prokofiev’s imagination, as the author of his biography that was published in 2009 in the Life of Remarkable People series, Igor Vishnevetsky, who is a poet, a prose-writer and a culturologist, says.

"Officially, we celebrate Prokofiev’s birthday, which is the product of his imagination, on April 23rd, while according to the official documents, it should be celebrated on April 27th. Igor Vishnevetsky said in an interview with the Voice of Russia."

One of the old myths was that Sergei Prokofiev was a person, who was seriously interested in nothing at all in his life, except music and...

The Triumph of Provocation, collected essays by Józef Mackiewicz

Original Polish title: Zwycięstwo prowokacji

Rights status: available for all languages less Polish and English.

Published by: English - Yale University Press (2009), Polish - Kontra, Russian - Zarya, German - Bergstadtverlag W.G. Korn

This masterful political treatise, first published in 1962, examines the history and nature of Communism as it developed in the Soviet Union and in Poland. Józef Mackiewicz, known for his relentless opposition to Communism, argues that accommodation with the Communists simply helped them to impose their vision of the world and pursue their goal of global domination. He compares Communism to Nazism and insists that the former was the greater threat to the future of humanity.

Mackiewicz's unique interpretation of the differences and similarities between Communism and Nazism is highly relevant to debates about these two systems and to major contemporary issues which are of particular importance to the U.S. and Europe, including radical Islam...

Ludmila Ulitskaya in France, September 2014

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Sergei Prokofiev, a biography, by Igor Vishnevetsky (2009, NF)

The Triumph of Provocation, collected essays by Józef Mackiewicz