"Little Jinx "is a canny mockery of the Soviet world. Its author, Andrei Sinyavsky, a respectable member of the USSR's Institute for World Literature, was exposed in 1965 as the real author of a series of irreverent essays and fantastic tales that had been circulating under the nom de plume Abram Tertz. After five years in a labor camp he immigrated to Paris." Little Jinx "is the tale of a man named Sinyavsky, a literary hack and runt who clumsily survives repression and anti-Semitism but also brings misery to those around him. When this "little jinx" inadvertently causes the death of his...

What does it mean to read one nation's literature in another language? The considerable popularity of Russian literature in the English-speaking world rests almost entirely upon translations: the many competing versions of major works, and the continuing publication of new and revised translations, suggest the inherently complex interplay between language and literature. In The Translator of the Text Rachel May analyzes Russian literature in English translation, treating it less as a substitute for the original works than as a special subset of English literature, with its own cultural,...

What does it mean to read one nation's literature in another language? The considerable popularity of Russian literature in the English-speaking world rests almost entirely upon translations. In The Translator and the Text, Rachel May analyzes Russian literature in English translation, seeing it less as a substitute for the original works than as a subset of English literature, with its own cultural, stylistic, and narrative traditions.

Consisting of a rare memoir and also a diary, this title provides a glimpse into the domestic life of Russia's nobility in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. By the standards of the day, Anna Labzina was relatively well educated, and she travelled widely through the Russian Empire. Yet unlike most writers of her time, she writes primarily as a dutiful, if inwardly rebellious, daughter and wife, reflecting the onerous roles assigned to women in a male-centred society. Her accounts of her spiritual development and her social sphere offer glimpses into male and female sensibilities of the...

Consisting of a rare memoir and also a diary, this title provides a glimpse into the domestic life of Russia's nobility in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. By the standards of the day, Anna Labzina was relatively well educated, and she travelled widely through the Russian Empire. Yet unlike most writers of her time, she writes primarily as a dutiful, if inwardly rebellious, daughter and wife, reflecting the onerous roles assigned to women in a male-centred society. Her accounts of her spiritual development and her social sphere offer glimpses into male and female sensibilities of the...

David Hawkes, described by a distinguished fellow sinologist as "the best living translator in our field, as well as one of the nicest people to have graced our profession," celebrates his eightieth birthday this year (2003). In this unusual and varied Birthday Book (a Festschrift with a difference), over forty of David's friends, students, colleagues and admirers from all over the world have come together to wish him a happy birthday, and to celebrate the man, and his exceptional scholarly and creative achievements.

David Hawkes is best known for his masterful translations, in which he...

"A rollicking, raucous, new myth, a classic..."

A lyrical exploration of how a bully comes into being.

"'Why didn't I get a Barbie Dreamhouse for Christmas?' So asks Mina immediately after wondering if she's a racist because she's white too. Priorities, place and position move our hero from well-meaning child to disconcerted bully, borne by a fear of impotence in the world as she tests her own privileged, small power over others. Out From the Pleiades is a rich romp, chockfull of feel-good details and enough unanswered questions to make anyone secure in their moral center come, a tiny...

Two novellas, each by a different author Published in one full-color book beautifully illustrated by fiber artist Rachel May.
WOMEN BORN WITH FUR by Beth Couture
A wondrous biography about excessively hairy women.
"An intoxicating book and brew."-Frederick Barthelme, author ofWaveland and There Must Be Some Mistake
"A memorable and singular debut."-Peter Markus, author of The Fish and the Not Fish
"Utterly heartbreaking."-Courtney Eldridge, author ofUnkemptandThe Generosity of Women
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A magical, heart-wrenching story about women born covered in hair, and how they love.

"Beth Couture's "Women Born with Fur"is a marvelously strange concoction, a cocktail of super-realism, fantasy, surrealism, occultism, and pop art, Rosenquist style. She develops her lovely conceit with care and kindness, leading us into a heartbreaking world we've never imagined, but in which we feel strangely comforted and right at home. An intoxicating book and brew." -Frederick Barthelme, author of"Waveland" and "There Must Be Some Mistake"

"Where the magic of invention meets up with the heft of...

Advance praise for The Experiments (a legend in pictures & words) by Rachel May... Rachel May blends the sensuous and the violent into forceful narratives that refuse to settle neatly down. Instead, they stick out, don't quite match up, and shuffle restlessly around in the most exciting and satisfying ways-just as her sewn collages do, in clashing prints and riotous colors-and all in quest of identity, in trying to put a name to it all, a name that goes beyond language, that demands the vividly visual, that demands the tangible. This book puts it in our hands. -Cole Swensen