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Leon Bakst, Portrait of an Artist as a Jew. True biography of Léon Bakst, by Olga Medvedkova (NF)
Rights sold: France - MARE & MARTIN, Russia - NLO
A multitude of existing exhibition catalogs and books dedicated to Léon Bakst and his art all avoid two fundamental problems of Bakst’s complex personality: his biography and Jewish identity, and his intellectual ambition. The vagueness regarding Bakst’s biography is largely due to the fact that the biographical information was provided by the children of Bakst’s sister. Shunning any archival research, they relied on two types of sources: contemporary publications by Bakst (personal lore) and his sister’s memory (family tradition). Neither were discussed or challenged by archival material.
Many years of scientific research into the life and work of Bakst brought Olga Medvedkova to creation of a fascinating historical and artistic biography, exceptionally deep and substantiated, based on archival findings, documents, memories of Bakst's contemporaties and colleagues. Medvedvova offers a close look at great artist's life and mystifications he surrunded himself...
Read moreBetween Dog and Wolf, a novel by Sasha Sokolov (1980)
Rights sold: Czech Republic - PROSTOR, China - CHINA WORKER, Japan - Kawade Shobo Shinsha, Mongolia - MASH NUUTS MEDIA, Poland – WAB, Russia - AZBOOKA, OGI, Serbia - THE SERBIAN LITERARY COOPERATIVE, Turkey - TIMAS, USA – ARDIS, Columbia University Press.
Between Dog and Wolf is a novel of startling originality, difficulty and daring. Its Russian title-idiom refers to twilight when the normally distinct becomes blurred, if not indistinguishable. Between Dog and Wolf, which has some claim to being the Finnegans Wake of Russian literature, was a quantum leap in Sokolov's literary development.
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