Enter the Rossica Young Translators Award 2012!
We are pleased to announce the launch of the 4th Rossica Young Translators Award!
If you speak or are studying Russian, and are 24 or under, why not enter this competition for the chance to win £500 and perhaps take the first step to becoming a professional literary translator. This year's writers are Dmitri Bykov, Viktor Pelevin and Figgle-Miggle. Closes 15th March.
If you speak or are studying Russian, and are 24 or under, why not enter this competition for the chance to win £500 and perhaps take the first step to becoming a professional literary translator. This year's writers are Dmitri Bykov, Viktor Pelevin and Figgle-Miggle. Closes 15th March.
GENERATION P TO OPEN RUSSIAN FILM FESTIVAL ON 4 NOVEMBER!
The 5th Russian Film Festival opens with the UK premiere of Generation P, the adaptation of Victor Pelevin’s cult novel! With Victor Pelevin in the running for the Nobel Prize for Literature today, there’s no better time to announce this exciting news about the UK premiere of this film!
Rossica 18
The Ties of Blood
Russian Literature from the 21st Century
This edition of Rossica takes on a new form! It is an Anthology of New Russian Writing, featuring both prose and poetry translated into English and edited by leading specialists.
The issue was launched at the first Russian Literature Week, in April 2008.
Russian Literature from the 21st Century
This edition of Rossica takes on a new form! It is an Anthology of New Russian Writing, featuring both prose and poetry translated into English and edited by leading specialists.
The issue was launched at the first Russian Literature Week, in April 2008.
The Helmet of Horror by Victor Pelevin
The Helmet of Horror Viktor Pelevin. Canongate Books Eight people meet on a certain website in a certain chat room. They begin communicating and through some innuendos and tiny details they, as well as the reader, quickly gather that they are locked in a virtual labyrinth. The very same labyrinth as featured in the Theseus and Minotaur myth. As they try to escape, fearing an encounter with the beast, they are still communicating with each other. A near consensus has been reached in Russia regarding Pelevin (born in 1962). Literary circles tend to agree that he is “our one and all” and writer number one. Once a year, as autumn approaches, Pelevin publishes a new novel, novella or a collection of short stories in which he renders an accurate, if rather cynical, description of life in Russia. His works will be a true treasure trove for future historians.
The Sacred Book of the Werewolf
by Victor Pelevin
Translated by Andrew Bromfield
Faber and Faber, 2008, pp.333
Described as "the Zen Buddhist Will Self of the former Evil Empire", Victor Pelevin is a star of contemporary Russian literature. The Sacred Book Of The Werewolf is an extraordinarily accomplished piece of contemporary writing that mashes up an assortment of genres: horror, humour, romance, fantasy, satire and post-modern self-reflexivity and sampling. The result is something that has to be classified as "high" literature, if only because of its entanglings in and borrowings from the work of Vladimir Nabokov and its deadly serious critique of contemporary Russian society under Putin.
Translated by Andrew Bromfield
Faber and Faber, 2008, pp.333
Described as "the Zen Buddhist Will Self of the former Evil Empire", Victor Pelevin is a star of contemporary Russian literature. The Sacred Book Of The Werewolf is an extraordinarily accomplished piece of contemporary writing that mashes up an assortment of genres: horror, humour, romance, fantasy, satire and post-modern self-reflexivity and sampling. The result is something that has to be classified as "high" literature, if only because of its entanglings in and borrowings from the work of Vladimir Nabokov and its deadly serious critique of contemporary Russian society under Putin.
Akiko
by Victor Pelevin
Translated by Marina Wright
Published as part of the magazine ‘London Miscellany’ May 2007; pp.8
The first ever winner of the Russian Little Booker Prize, Victor Pelevin is one of the most prominent writers in Russian today. Since his debut, Pelevin's work continues to develop in adventurous ways. In his latest translated offering Akiko, a victim's obsession with an online porn site devolves into a losing pas de deux with a computer-generated concubine and her monkey Mao.
Translated by Marina Wright
Published as part of the magazine ‘London Miscellany’ May 2007; pp.8
The first ever winner of the Russian Little Booker Prize, Victor Pelevin is one of the most prominent writers in Russian today. Since his debut, Pelevin's work continues to develop in adventurous ways. In his latest translated offering Akiko, a victim's obsession with an online porn site devolves into a losing pas de deux with a computer-generated concubine and her monkey Mao.
Rossica 18
The Ties of Blood
Russian Literature from the 21st Century
This edition of Rossica takes on a new form! It is an Anthology of New Russian Writing, featuring both prose and poetry translated into English and edited by leading specialists.
The issue was launched at the first Russian Literature Week, in April 2008.
Russian Literature from the 21st Century
This edition of Rossica takes on a new form! It is an Anthology of New Russian Writing, featuring both prose and poetry translated into English and edited by leading specialists.
The issue was launched at the first Russian Literature Week, in April 2008.