Tatyana Tolstaya
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Sobre l'autor
Tatyana Tolstaya---"the most original, tactile, luminous voice in Russian prose today," according to Joseph Brodsky---worked at various publishing jobs after graduating from Leningrad University and appeared on the Moscow literary scene in 1983 with the favorably received story "Loves Me, Loves Me mostra'n més Not." Her first collection, On the Golden Porch (1988), proved extremely popular. Soon afterward she came to the United States on the first of a series of visiting university appointments and has plunged actively into cultural life in this country: She writes for the New York Review of Books, the New Republic, The New Yorker, and other magazines, as well as for publications in Russia. Her forte is the short story, her writing distinguished by exuberance, a talent for description, a comic sensibility, and more than a touch of the surreal. For one reviewer, "the discrepancy between fondest desires and disappointing reality" lies at the core of her writing, which is "a fiction of vast possibility, propelled not by plot, but by a narrative voice that imaginatively conveys the ambiguities of her characters' inner lives" (Baltimore Morning Sun). Sleepwalker in a Fog (1991) is her second book. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra'n menys
Nota de desambiguació:
(eng) Do not combine with LT entry for Leo Tolstoy's daughter, Tatyana Tolstoy.
Crèdit de la imatge: Yaffa Grinblatt / Whistling in the Dark
Obres de Tatyana Tolstaya
Krug 2 exemplars
Двое 2 exemplars
Fathers and Sons 2 exemplars
Tolstoi, Meu Pai - Recordações 1 exemplars
Laki svetovi 1 exemplars
Lūška 1 exemplars
Rendezvous mit einem Vogel 1 exemplars
The Slynx {short story} 1 exemplars
Obres associades
The Art of the Story: An International Anthology of Contemporary Short Stories (1999) — Col·laborador — 340 exemplars
The Fierce and Beautiful World (New York Review Books Classics) (1970) — Introducció, algunes edicions — 199 exemplars
The Image of Women in Contemporary Soviet Fiction: Selected Short Stories from the USSR (1989) — Col·laborador — 7 exemplars
ロシア短編集 ПЁСТРЫЕ РАССКАЗЫ 雑話集 III — Col·laborador — 1 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Nom normalitzat
- Tolstaya, Tatyana
- Altres noms
- Tolstaya, Tatiana Nikitishna
- Data de naixement
- 1951-05-03
- Gènere
- female
- Nacionalitat
- Russia
- Lloc de naixement
- Leningrad, Russia, USSR
- Llocs de residència
- Leningrad, Russia
Moscow, Russia
Richmond, Virginia, USA - Educació
- Leningrad State University (Classics)
- Professions
- novelist
television host
essayist - Relacions
- Tolstoy, Alexei (grandfather)
Tolstoy, Leo (great-grand uncle) - Nota de desambiguació
- Do not combine with LT entry for Leo Tolstoy's daughter, Tatyana Tolstoy.
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The Slynx (New York Review Books Classics) de Tatyana Tolstaya
I find this almost impossible to review. Terrifying and humorous at the same time. A post apocalyptic Tsarist-Soviet fantasy. Pieces of Borges, Burgess, Gaiman, Hoban, and Walter Williams come to mind. I laughed my ass off at times.
Written in a mixture of first, second, and third person, this novel about a post-Blast Moscow is a stinging commentary of the second half of the 20th century Russian politics. Everyone's a mutant, life is an abominable mess, and the people are fed selected bundles of art and literature by a familiar sounding State. Themes include the dangers and joys of art, man's vile and selfish nature, and those transcendental moments evoked by poetry and landscape. What, really, makes us civilized? Or, have we ever been?
My only qualm is that I don't know enough about Russian history and literature to understand the subtler intentions of the book. A , though, would read again. With Wikipedia close by.… (més)
My only qualm is that I don't know enough about Russian history and literature to understand the subtler intentions of the book. A , though, would read again. With Wikipedia close by.… (més)
Even though the book is announced as stories to me it sounded more like essays. I how far am I to think that Tolstaya is pretending to be a cynical as she comes across in places or does she really mean it. When she portrays people like Malevich and Swedenborg in a little bit a tongue in cheek tone, does she mean that she doesn't like them or that her narrator is just mocking them. It's confusing.
The author also refers to life after death in several "stories" but never really says if she believes in it or not. The same with other spiritual references.… (més)
The author also refers to life after death in several "stories" but never really says if she believes in it or not. The same with other spiritual references.… (més)
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Estadístiques
- Obres
- 50
- També de
- 15
- Membres
- 1,750
- Popularitat
- #14,701
- Valoració
- 3.8
- Ressenyes
- 40
- ISBN
- 102
- Llengües
- 16
- Preferit
- 3