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Russian Stories (Translation)
[Paperback - 2013]
francesc seres
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Category: Literature
Sub-category: Anthologies
Publisher: Maclehose Press Uk | ISBN: 9780857051592 | Pages: 220
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Drift through outer space with a doomed cosmonaut whose engine is 'kaput!'; return to an irradiated village with an elderly couple who want to go home; ask yourself, did Elvis really play a concert in Red Square? Twenty-one impish and irrepressible stories by five neglected or forgotten Russian writers. Fresh-faced vignettes from modern St Petersburg; hair-raising tales of state insanity, snatched from the Soviet archives; dark fables from the days of serfdom, when the land was untamed and life was brutish and short. Each mines a discrete facet of Russian life, history or culture, and taken as a whole they sketch a historical arc from the nineteenth century to the age of the budget airline, offering the reader a unique combination of daring, wit, dash and charm.

About the Author

Francesc Serés Guillén (Saidí, Baix Cinca, 22 de desembre de 1972) és un escriptor franjolí en llengua catalana establert a la Garrotxa. La seva obra literària inclou títols com De fems i de marbres (2003), La força de la gravetat (2006), Caure amunt. Muntaner, Llull, Roig (2008), Contes russos (2009) La pell de la frontera (2014) o La casa de foc (2020). Els seus textos han estat traduïts a diferents llengües i han estat guardonats amb el Premi Nacional de Literatura i el Premi Ciutat de Barcelona, entre d'altres. Col·labora habitualment al diari Ara i a altres mitjans de premsa escrita. Entre 2016 i 2021 fou director de la Residència Faber, a Olot. El juny del 2021 fou nomenat director de l'Institut Ramon Llull, del qual ja era director de l'Àrea de Creació des del desembre del 2018. Tot i això, mesos més tard renuncià al càrrec per motius personals i el 5 de novembre de 2021 es nomenà Pere Almeda com a director de la institució.

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