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Saša Sokolov

    6 novembre 1943

    Sasha Sokolov è una voce letteraria russa celebrata per la sua non convenzionale padronanza della lingua, uno stile che egli definisce "proeziia", esistente tra prosa e poesia. La sua opera è caratterizzata da un giocoso coinvolgimento con ritmo, suono e associazione, che lo rende una figura significativa nella letteratura russa del XX secolo. La distintiva sperimentazione linguistica di Sokolov e la sua profonda esplorazione della lingua russa definiscono la sua produzione letteraria unica e stimolante. I lettori possono aspettarsi un'esperienza narrativa profondamente inventiva che spinge i confini delle forme letterarie tradizionali.

    Saša Sokolov
    Der wilde Strom
    Shkola dlja durakov
    Школа для дураков; Между собакой и волком
    In the House of the Hanged
    Between Dog and Wolf
    A School For Fools
    • A School For Fools

      • 191pagine
      • 7 ore di lettura

      By turns lyrical and philosophical, witty and baffling, A School for Fools confounds all expectations of the novel. Here we find not one reliable narrator but two “unreliable” narrators: the young man who is a student at the “school for fools” and his double. What begins as a reverie (with frequent interruptions) comes to seem a sort of fairy-tale quest not for gold or marriage but for self-knowledge. The currents of consciousness running through the novel are passionate and profound. Memories of childhood summers at the dacha are contemporaneous with the present, the dead are alive, and the beloved is present in the wind. Here is a tale either of madness or of the life of the imagination in conversation with reason, straining at the limits of language; in the words of Vladimir Nabokov, “an enchanting, tragic, and touching book.”

      A School For Fools
    • Between Dog and Wolf

      • 296pagine
      • 11 ore di lettura

      Sasha Sokolov is one of few writers to have been praised by Vladimir Nabokov, who called his first novel, A School for Fools, "an enchanting, tragic, and touching book." Sokolov's second novel, Between Dog and Wolf, written in 1980, has long intimidated translators because of its complex puns, rhymes, and neologisms. Language rather than plot motivates the story--the novel is often compared to James Joyce's Finnegans Wake--and time, characters, and death all prove unstable. The one constant is the Russian landscape, where the Volga is a more-crossable River Styx, especially when it freezes in winter. Sokolov's fiction has hugely influenced contemporary Russian writers. Now, thanks to Alexander Boguslawski's bold and superb translation, English readers can access what many consider to be his best work.

      Between Dog and Wolf
    • In the House of the Hanged

      Essays and Vers Libres

      • 236pagine
      • 9 ore di lettura

      Exploring the realms of art, literature, and culture, this collection of essays by Sasha Sokolov delves into his profound insights and reflections as one of Russia's most significant contemporary novelists. Through thought-provoking discussions, Sokolov examines the intricacies of writing and the impact of culture on artistic expression, offering readers a deep understanding of his creative philosophy.

      In the House of the Hanged
    • Shkola dlja durakov

      • 262pagine
      • 10 ore di lettura

      Roman Shkola dlja durakov - odno iz samyh znachitel'nyh javlenij russkoj literatury konca HH veka. Po opredeleniju samogo avtora, jeto kniga ob utonchennom i strannom mal'chike, stradajushhem razdvoeniem lichnosti ko toryj ne mozhet primirit'sja s okruzhajushhej dejstvitel'nost'ju i kotoryj, priobshhajas' k miru vzroslyh, otkryvaet prisutstvie v mire ljubvi i smerti. Po-prezhnemu ostajutsja aktual'nymi slova pervogo izdatelja romana Karla Proffera: Nichego podobnogo net ni v sovremennoj russkoj literature, ni v russkoj literature voobshhe

      Shkola dlja durakov
    • Jeden z nejoriginálnějších soudobých ruských spisovatelů ve svém třetím románě demytizuje téma ruské historie a zpracovává ho metodou prozaického postmodernismu. Vyprávění je koncipováno jako vzpomínky Palisandra Dalberga, příbuzného Lavrentije Beriji, jednoho ze sloupů stalinské hrůzovlády. Vzpomínky se týkají stalinského a postalinského období a jsou dokončeny jakoby v roce 2004. Dalberg, vychovaný v Kremlu, je součástí systému státní bezpečnosti a s obyvateli Kremlu ho pojí příbuzenské svazky. Období strávené za kremelskými zdmi považuje za rajské. Po nezdařeném pokusu o odstranění jednoho z komunistických vůdců v Brežněvově éře je z ráje vyhoštěn do západní Evropy, kde hledá na základě plánu samotného Andropova přerušené svazky s ruskou emigrací, ale je jimi i západním světem zklamán. Pociťuje odcizení, ale nakonec se všemožnými nečistými prostředky domůže bohatství i poct, vrací se do Ruska jako budoucí vládce, ale utrpí porážku. Na své pouti zažívá Dalberg celou řadu milostných dobrodružství - nikdy nepoznal svoje rodiče a touha po matce ho vede k nejztřeštěnějším nápadům a vztahům ke starým ženám. Román je někdy též označován jako ironicko-alternativní verze sovětské historie a parodie na Nabokovovu slavnou Lolitu zároveň.

      Palisandreia