ELKOST International literary agency - Ludmila Ulitskaya in Turin, Italy, May 13, 2016

Una storia russa

Incontro con Ludmila Ulitskaja In occasione della pubblicazione del suo romanzo

Babel - Spazio Internazionale

Narrativa straniera

venerdì 13 maggio,

ore 13:00

Babel - Spazio Internazionale

a cura di BOMPIANI

partecipanti

Ludmila Ulitskaja
Anna Zafesova
Elena Kostioukovitch

Un pianista, un poeta e un fotografo, già compagni di scuola, si ritrovano ad affrontare insieme le sfide della vita nella Mosca del dopo Stalin, governata dal KGB. Nella tradizione dei grandi autori russi, da Dostoevskij a Pasternak, un romanzo che brucia di politica, amore e fede.

Featured titles

LEAD ME, BLIND MAN, a novel by Vladislav Otroshenko (2007)

Rights sold: Russia – Culturnaya Revolutzia, AST

A biopic novel dedicated to the famous Russian playwright Alexander Sukhovo-Kobylin (1817-1903). A rich aristocrat who often travelled, Sukhovo-Kobylin was arrested, prosecuted and tried for seven years in Russia for the murder of his French mistress Louise-Simone Dimanche, a crime of which he is nowadays generally believed to have been innocent. Based on his personal experiences, Sukhovo-Kobylin wrote a trilogy of satirical plays about the prevalence of bribery and other corrupt practices in the Russian judicial system of the time.

The Collector. The Story of Sergei Shchukin and His Lost Masterpieces, by Natalya Semenova with André Delocque (NF)

Rights sold: World English - YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS, France - CHTCHOUKINE FUND, Italy - JOHAN & LEVI, Romania - VREMEA, Russia - SLOVO, Taiwan (traditional Chinese) - ART & COLLECTION

Winner of the 2021 The Art Newspaper Russia Prize

A fascinating life of Sergei Shchukin, the great collector who changed the face of Russia’s art world

Sergei Shchukin was a highly successful textiles merchant in the latter half of the nineteenth century, but he also had a great eye for beauty. He was one of the first to appreciate the qualities of the Impressionists and Post-Impressionists and to acquire works by Cézanne, Matisse, and Picasso. A trailblazer in the Russian art world, Shchukin and his collection shocked, provoked, and inspired awe, ridicule, and derision among his contemporaries.

This is the first biography of Sergei Shchukin, written by art historian Natalya Semenova and adapted by Shchukin's grandson André Delocque. Featuring personal diary entries, correspondence, interviews, and archival research, it brings to light the life of a man who has hitherto remained in the shadows, and shows how despite his controversial reputation, he opened his collection to the public, inspiring a future generation of artists and changing the face of the Russian art world.