ELKOST International literary agency - Ludmila Ulitskaya participates to the International Writers Festival in Jerusalem

From May, 2nd, to May, 6th, 2010, Ludmila Ulitskaya is a special guest of the 2nd International Writers Festival MISHKENOT SHAANANIM in Jerusalem, Israel.

For details see: http://www.mishkenot.org.il/en/default.asp

Meir Shalev (Israel) and Ludmila Ulitskaya

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The Stormy Life of Lasik Roitschwantz, a novel by Ilya Ehrenburg (1927)

Publishers: France - JC LATTÉS (1981), Germany - Kindler (1969), SUHRKAMP (1976), VOLK UND WELT (1985, 1994), Die Andere Bibliothek (2016), Italy - RIZZOLI (1969), GIUNTINA (2009), Poland - CZYTELNIK (1957), Spain - MUCHNIK EDITORES (1978), USA/UK - POLYGLOT LIBRARY (1960), ELEK BOOKS (1965), Hungary - TEKA (1988)

Ehrenburg's The Stormy Life of Lasik Roitschwantz (1928) is a version of Jaroslav Hašek's The Good Soldier Svejk and Voltaire's Candide. The hero is a simple, good-natured Jewish ghetto tailor from Belorussia whose adventures take him through a half a dozen countries and several prisons. Lazar works as a rabbit breeder in Tula, rabbi in Frankfurt, police informer for Scotland Yard, film actor in Berlin, pioneer in Palestine, and painter in Paris. Ehrenburg satirizes among others the phony artists of the Parisian Latin Quarter and the speculators in the Weimar Republic.

The Second Day, a novel by Ilya Ehrenburg (1932)

Publishers: Germany - VOLK UND WELT (1958), Portugal – BLOCH (1974), USA/UK - HIPPOCRENE BOOKS (1972), OCTAGON BOOKS (1978)

The Second Day (Den Vtoroi, sometimes translated as "Out of Chaos") is a day-to-day account of the harsh conditions of life and heroic efforts of workers to overcome nature's resistance as they built a blast furnace in Kuznetsk, Russia. In the novel, a weak dreamer tries to fit in with the more dedicated workers but fails. He becomes complicit in an act of vandalism. Ashamed of his own spiritual bankruptcy, he commits suicide.

Ludmila Ulitskaya participates to the International Writers Festival in Jerusalem - 2-6/05/2010

Featured titles

The Stormy Life of Lasik Roitschwantz, a novel by Ilya Ehrenburg (1927)

The Second Day, a novel by Ilya Ehrenburg (1932)