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JUST PUBLISHED: Sasha Sokolov's book of essays in Canada
JUST PUBLISHED: Ivan Chistyakov's DIARY OF A GULAG PRISON GUARD in France
Russian edition of Umberto Eco's The Cemetery of Prague heads the bestsellers list - 14/12/2011
Ulitskaya´s IMAGO is in the top-10 of Estonian bestsellers - 06/12/2011
Russian edition of Umberto Eco´s The Cemetery of Prague is the leader of sales - 01/12/2011
Round-table RUSSIAN LITERATURE ABROAD at non/fiction Book Fair - 03/12/2011
Presentation of the first Russian edition of Umberto Eco's CEMETERY OF PRAGUE - 03/12/2011
"Polska the Times" newspaper recommends Khodorkovsky's book - November 2011
JUST PUBLISHED: Mikhail Khodorkovsky's I WILL FIGHT FOR MY FREEDOM in Poland
JUST PUBLISHED: Ludmila Ulitskaya's Daniel Stein, Interpreter - now in Australia
Umberto Eco's novels are published by Corpus Books, Russia - October, 2011
ELKOST agency at 2011 Frankfurt Book Fair
New version of www.elkost.com - 09/10/2011
Memories of a War-Time Interpreter by Elena Rzhevskaya are on the short list of Medicis Prize
Ludmila Ulitskaya in NY from March 31st to April 8th, 2011

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Featured titles

  • The Third Heart (Potemkin), a novel by Yuri Buida (2008)

    Rights sold: France – Gallimard, Russia - EKSMO

    A short novel that narrates the improbable life of a Russian émigré in France and engages in polemical dialogue with the fiction of Vladimir Nabokov.

    There was a time when nearly fifty thousand Russians lived in Paris (on the eve of World War I, they were hardly more than thirty-six thousand in all France). They prayed in Orthodox churches, sent their children to Russian schools, and discussed Dostoevsky in La Rotonde coffee shop.

    Fyodor Zavalishin, also known as Theo, was one of those Russians who managed to escape the Bolshevik Revolution and settled in Paris. As many of them, he also visited a screening of Eisenstein's masterpiece, Battleship Potemkin in November 1926. As a soldier, in 1905 he took part in the suppression of the revolt in the Russian fleet. When he watched Eisenstein's impressive reconstruction of the massacre in the port of Odessa on the big screen, he suddenly felt guilt of being involved in this crime... Theo rushes to the nearest police station to make a confession, then tries to cure his remorse and guilt in a psychiatric hospital. There he learns from the newspapers a horrible story of seven women who were found murdered in a mass grave in Deauville. Without hesitation, Theo attributes the massacre to his former comrade in arms, badly disabled Ivan Domani, for whom he had just agreed to make erotic pictures of seven young creatures. Thus began a long Theo’s journey between violence and redemption ...

    Buida’s The Third Heart is an amazing book that confirms more than ever that Yuri Bouida, who enjoys a great prestige in the country, occupies a prominent place in the great Russian literary tradition.

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  • Body of the Soul, collected stories by Ludmila Ulitskaya (2019)

    Rights sold:  Croatia - FRAKTURA, Finland - SILTALA, France - GALLIMARD, Germany - HANSER, Greece - AGRA, Hungary - MAGVETO, Italy - LA NAVE DI TESEO, Serbia - ARHIPELAG, Slovenia - SLOVART, Russia - AST, World English - Yale University Press (Margellos)

    Ulitskaya's new collection was subtitled by the author as 'borderline' short stories. In all cultures and religions, the very concept of borderline, of boundary, of some kind of restriction is inherent for one's consciousness and life experience. Over a lifetime, people constantly deal with multiple limitations, internal or external, real or imagined. These boundaries can “expand”, “be effaced”, “crossed”, “demand respect”, some of them we set for ourselves, and others are set by states, societies, or traditions. It is philosophical and humanistic interpretation of this concept that Ulitskaya writes about in her book.

    The book feature two cycles of short stories. In the first one, My Lady-Friends, the key motive of Ulitskaya's narrative is love, perhaps the only device capable of effacing any boundaries between people. Protagonists of these stories recover missing part of their soul and gain strength necessary for life with a help of love manifesting itself in different forms and shapes: physical love, maternal love, late love, unexpected love, adoration, allegiance, sympathy, affection...

    In the second cycle, On The Body Of The Soul, Ulitskaya approaches the innermost boundary - the boundary of life, or rather of physical existence of our bodies. Is there a line dividing life and death? Or is death the limit of life? And what is there, beyond our physical existence? Ulitskaya's protagonists are caught in those crucial moments of their lives when physical and metaphysical is almost inseparable.

     

    We know much more about human body than about the soul. Indeed, no one can draw up a map of the soul. All we can is just somehow catch, to glimpse into a boundary strip, into that zone separating existence and non-existence. There, near the border as we approach it, such vibrations begin, such subtle details are revealed that it is almost impossible to give them a wording in our beautiful, but limited language. A risky, very dangerous approach. Still, that space attracts to itself the further you live, the stronger. -- Ludmila Ulitskaya

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