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Chargement... White Walls: Collected Stories (2007)par Tatyana Tolstaya
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. very 🇷🇺, very 💭 ( ) These 'stories' are more like long prose poetry pieces, and many of them are very hard to unpick. Some are really just wordy evocations of a place, or of a memory - with creative use of syntax. There's some lovely sketches, and a couple of the longer pieces with some narrative energy behind them are really very beautiful. While Tatyana Tolstaya’s prose is beautifully lyrical, her subject matter is rather depressing. No one is satisfied or happy at all in her stories. While there were one or two stories that I enjoyed, most of the stories were too heavy for my tastes. Also, the stories became more and more political, which made them more and more boring. This is one for the “Don’t Bother” pile, sadly. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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A New York Review Books Original "Tolstaya carves indelible people who roam the imagination long after the book is put down." -Time Tatyana Tolstaya's short stories--with their unpredictable fairy-tale plots, appealingly eccentric characters, and stylistic abundance and flair--established her in the 1980s as one of modern Russia's finest writers. Since then her work has been translated throughout the world. Edna O'Brien has called Tolstaya "an enchantress." Anita Desai has spoken of her work's "richness and ardent life." Mixing heartbreak and humor, dizzying flights of fantasy and plunging descents to earth, Tolstaya is the natural successor in a great Russian literary lineage that includes Gogol, Yuri Olesha, Bulgakov, and Nabokov. White Walls is the most comprehensive collection of Tolstaya's short fiction to be published in English so far. It presents the contents of her two previous collections, On the Golden Porch and Sleepwalker in a Fog, along with several previously uncollected stories. Tolstaya writes of lonely children and lost love, of philosophers of the absurd and poets working as janitors, of angels and halfwits. She shows how the extraordinary will suddenly erupt in the midst of ordinary life, as she explores the human condition with a matchless combination of unbound imagination and unapologetic sympathy. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Google Books — Chargement... GenresClassification décimale de Melvil (CDD)891.7344Literature Literature of other languages Literature of east Indo-European and Celtic languages Russian and East Slavic languages Russian fiction USSR 1917–1991 Late 20th century 1917–1991Classification de la Bibliothèque du CongrèsÉvaluationMoyenne:
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