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Non-Memoirs by Yuri Lotman
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One afternoon in December 1992, in Tartu, Estonia, Yuri Lotman reluctantly sat down to dictate his memoirs to Elena Pogosian, his assistant, over a pot of tea. Before his wife, Zara Mints, died in 1990, he had promised her that he would write the story of his life, and it was in memory of her that he embarked on a project he found disagreeable. This December afternoon was the first of twelve dictation sessions during which the initial draft of Non-Memoirs was created between them. The sessions were spread out over that winter and into the spring of 1993—the last spring of Lotman’s life. He could no longer write himself, due to a series of debilitating strokes and the weakness brought on by kidney cancer, and so had grown accustomed...
Read moreKukotsky Case, a novel by Ludmila Ulitskaya (2001)
Penne Prize (2006, Italy)
Russian Booker Prize 2001
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Big part of her life Ulitskaya has been closely connected to biological schience, though a twist of life took her in another direction. Her years devoted to studying genetics and medicine have made a considerable impact on her literary style. This was where she realized the similarities...
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