Between Dog and Wolf (Russian Library)

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.

Literature & Fiction

Sokolov, Sasha

Literary

Columbia University Press

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.

Mezhdu sobakoĭ i volkom (Russian Edition)

ARDIS

Mezhdu Sobakoi I Volkom

Palisandriia

Palisandriia (Russian Edition)

Shkola Dlya Durakov

Science & Math

Arguably the most important living Russian writer, Sasha Sokolov is an acknowledged literary master. Widely admired for his ability to elevate prose to the level of poetry, he is also known for his craftsmanship and phenomenal use of language. Until now, however, English-speaking audiences have had access to only a few of his acclaimed works – novels A School for Fools (1977), Between Dog and Wolf (1980), and Astrophobia (1989), and the essay "The Anxious Pupa." In the House of the Hanged features the first-ever translation of thirteen of Sokolov's major essays and free verses.\nExploring universal truths concerning language, the role of the artist, talent, and virtuosity, these texts provide key insight into the development of Sokolov's shorter forms. Each is accompanied by explanatory notes and an annotated index developed by Alexander Boguslawski in conjunction with Sokolov himself. These serve to contextualize Sokolov's Russian cultural and linguistic references, and allow worldwide audiences to enjoy his astounding erudition, wit, curiosity, and ever-developing talent.

In the House of the Hanged: Essays and Vers Libres

History & Criticism

University of Toronto Press

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 (New York Review Books Classics)

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

NYRB Classics

Roman Â«Shkola dlia durakovÂ» â€" odno iz samykh znachitelnykh iavlenii russkoi literatury kontca KhKh veka. Po opredeleniiu samogo avtora, eto kniga Â«ob utonchennom i strannom malchike, stradaiushchem razdvoeniem lichnostiâ€¦ kotoryi ne mozhet primiritsia s okruzhaiushchei deistvitelnostiuÂ» i kotoryi, priobshchaias k miru vzroslykh, otkryvaet prisutstvie v mire liubvi i smerti. Po-prezhnemu ostaiutsia aktualnymi slova pervogo izdatelia romana Karla Proffera: Â«Nichego podobnogo net ni v sovremennoi russkoi literature, ni v russkoi literature voobshcheÂ».

Shkola dlja durakov

Azbuka

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