Ukrainian edition of Elena Kostioukovitch’s award-winning title Why Italians Love to Talk about Food released by FOLIO PUBLISHERS as "Їжа. Італійське щастя" will be launched at the Lviv Book Forum 2015.
Events will be held on September 11-13 in Lviv, Ukraine
Prix Médicis (1996, France)
Literature Prize Giuseppe Acerbi (1998, Italy)
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The volume shows us the author as a philosopher of Russian geopolitics. Its nine essays develop a unified rationale for Russia’s fate from the Time of Troubles to the death of Stalin, driven largely by an internal, eschatological dynamic. Exemplary is an essay from 2000, “Capital and Province”, on the capital (the seat of Power) versus the provinces (home of the people) as two conceptual modes. Power identifies with heaven and ravages the earth even while constantly expanding over it, while the provinces align with the soil, hover over it, nurture it—and neither is much interested in the other except instrumentally, each side fearing the other with “areciprocal terror, persecution mania and mutual flight”.
Other entries range from hardcore history to opinion pieces: on Ivan IV’s oprichnina; on Saint George the Dragon-Slayer; a history of absolute power in Russia titled; several pages of political insights...
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