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In his timely new book, Mikhail Shishkin, argues that Russia is not a 'riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma': we just don't know enough about it. So what is the real story behind Putin's autocratic regime and its invasion of Ukraine?In My Russia: War or Peace? Shishkin traces the roots of Russia's problems, from the 'Kievan Rus' via the Grand Duchy of Moscow, empire, revolution and Cold War, to the now thirty-year-old Russian Federation. He explores the uneasy relationship between state and citizens, explains Russian attitudes to people's rights and democracy, and proposes that there are really two Russian peoples: the disillusioned and disaffected, who suffer from 'slave mentality', and those who embrace 'European' values and try to stand up to oppression.Both deeply personal and taking a broader historical view, My Russia is a passionate, eye-opening account of a state entangled in a complex and bloody past, as well as a love letter to a conflicted country. Will Russia continue its vicious circle of upheaval and autocracy, or will its people find a way out of history - and how can we help?

In his timely new book, Mikhail Shishkin, argues that Russia is not a 'riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma': we just don't know enough about it. So what is the real story behind Putin's autocratic regime and its invasion of Ukraine?In My Russia: War or Peace? Shishkin traces the roots of Russia's problems, from the 'Kievan Rus' via the Grand Duchy of Moscow, empire, revolution and Cold War, to the now thirty-year-old Russian Federation. He explores the uneasy relationship between state and citizens, explains Russian attitudes to people's rights and democracy, and proposes that there are really two Russian peoples: the disillusioned and disaffected, who suffer from 'slave mentality', and those who embrace 'European' values and try to stand up to oppression.Both deeply personal and taking a broader historical view, My Russia is a passionate, eye-opening account of a state entangled in a complex and bloody past, as well as a love letter to a conflicted country. Will Russia continue its vicious circle of upheaval and autocracy, or will its people find a way out of history - and how can we help?

In his timely new book, Mikhail Shishkin, argues that Russia is not a 'riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma': we just don't know enough about it. So what is the real story behind Putin's autocratic regime and its invasion of Ukraine?In My Russia: War or Peace? Shishkin traces the roots of Russia's problems, from the 'Kievan Rus' via the Grand Duchy of Moscow, empire, revolution and Cold War, to the now thirty-year-old Russian Federation. He explores the uneasy relationship between state and citizens, explains Russian attitudes to people's rights and democracy, and proposes that there are really two Russian peoples: the disillusioned and disaffected, who suffer from 'slave mentality', and those who embrace 'European' values and try to stand up to oppression.Both deeply personal and taking a broader historical view, My Russia is a passionate, eye-opening account of a state entangled in a complex and bloody past, as well as a love letter to a conflicted country. Will Russia continue its vicious circle of upheaval and autocracy, or will its people find a way out of history - and how can we help?

Fate sends two star-crossed lovers, Sasha and Volodenka, on two separate journeys across space and time. Sasha finds herself as a young woman in a time not far from the present day. Volodenka finds himself as a young soldier in a horrific conflict at the turn of the twentieth century. Yet, despite their cosmic schism, their letters still reach one another; as he helps her to come to terms with life and she helps him to come to terms with death. Half male, half female; half exploration of the physical and the immediate, half meditation on the intangible and the infinite, The Light and the Dark is a literary feat as balanced and beautiful as it is prodigious and profound.

"One of the most prominent names in modern Russian literature."--Publishers WeeklyDay after day the Russian asylum-seekers sit across from the interpreter and Peter--the Swiss officers who guard the gates to paradise--and tell of the atrocities they've suffered, or that they've invented, or heard from someone else. These stories of escape, war, and violence intermingle with the interpreter's own reading: a his-tory of an ancient Persian war; letters sent to his son "Nebuchadnezzasaurus," ruler of a distant, imaginary childhood empire; and the diaries of a Russian singer who lived through Russia's wars and revolutions in the early part of the twentieth century, and eventually saw the Soviet Union's dissolution.Mikhail Shishkin's Maidenhair is an instant classic of Russian literature. It bravely takes on the eternal questions--of truth and fiction, of time and timeless-ness, of love and war, of Death and the Word--and is a movingly luminescent expression of the pain of life and its uncountable joys.Mikhail Shishkin is one of Russia's most prominent and respected contemporary writers. When Maidenhair was published in 2005, it was awarded both the National Bestseller Prize and the Big Book Prize.Marian Schwartz is a prize-winning translator of Russian. The winner of a Translation Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Heldt Translation Prize, Schwartz has translated classic literary works by Nina Berberova, Yuri Olesha, and Mikhail Bulgakov.

"A welcome volume of stories from Russia's finest contemporary fiction writer, Mikhail Shishkin, full of his typical fusing of mysticism and modernist experimentation." --Sam Sacks, Wall Street Journal The first English-language collection of short stories by Russia's greatest contemporary author, Mikhail Shishkin, the only author to win all three of Russia's most prestigious literary awards. Often included in discussions of Nobel Prize contenders, Shishkin is a master prose writer in the breathtakingly beautiful style of the greatest Russian authors, known for complex, allusive novels about universal and emotional themes. Shishkin's stories read like modern versions of the eternal literature written by his greatest inspirations: Boris Pasternak, Ivan Bunin, Leo Tolstoy, and Mikhail Bulgakov. Shishkin's short fiction is the perfect introduction to his breathtaking oeuvre, his stories touch on the same big themes as his novels, spanning discussions of love and loss, death and eternal life, emigration and exile. Calligraphy Lesson spans Shishkin's entire writing career, including his first published story, the 1993 Debut Prize--winning "Calligraphy Lesson," and his most recent story "Nabokov's Inkblot," which was written for a dramatic adaptation performed in Zurich in 2013. Mikhail Shishkin (b. 1961 in Moscow) is one of the most prominent names in contemporary Russian literature. A former interpreter for refugees in Switzerland, Shishkin divides his time between Moscow, Switzerland, and Germany.

Chto ne tak v mire, sozdannom kirillitsej?AnnotatsijaZachem literatura, esli ona ne spasla ni ot GULAGa, ni ot SVO?Khudozhnik ostro chuvstvuet to, chto budet. Chernyj kvadrat Malevicha - eto uvidennoe im buduschee, v kotorom byla pervaja mirovaja vojna, grazhdanskaja, GULAG.Dumaju, ne ja odin chuvstvuju sejchas Rossiju kak chernyj kvadrat.Russkoj kulture, kak sto let nazad, lomajut khrebet.Literature v kontse kontsov vse pojdet na polzu, dazhe slomannyj khrebet. Bez Kolymy ne bylo by "Kolymskikh rasskazov". Sudba pisatelej literature bezrazlichna, ej vazhny lish teksty. Teksty budut rozhdatsja, poka zhiv jazyk. No zachem literatura?Mikhail Shishkin"Kto ne ljubit shkolnogo literaturovedenija - ne opasajtes. Eto ne o tom, "chto khotel skazat avtor svoim proizvedeniem". Shishkin luchshe drugikh ponimaet, chto avtor chasto i sam etogo ne znaet, a uzh govorit ob etom - i vovse durnoj ton. Kniga ne o tekstakh - o ljudjakh, napisavshikh eti teksty. No ne o nikh, kak o kogda-to zhivshikh, uchivshikhsja, zhenivshikhsja, delavshikh kareru, - ne ob ikh biografijakh. Eto o tom, kak ikh talant treboval ot nikh sootvetstvija i "svjaschennoj zhertvy", kak oni inogda dejstvovali zaodno so svoim talantom, a inogda - borolis s nim i dazhe proigryvali emu. Teksty, o kotorykh rasskazyvaet Shishkina obladajut svobodoj voli, oni stol zhe subektny, kak i ikh avtory.Shishkin pishet o tekstakh, no ne izlagaet ikh. Eto ne kratkij pereskaz, ne perevod romana v komiks. Kogda-to, sdavaja raznye varianty marksizma, my vmesto togo, chtoby chitat ogromnye i otvratitelno napisannye trudy V. I. Lenina, smotreli sootvetstvujuschie zametki v Filosofskom slovare - dlja ekzamena etogo vpolne khvatalo. Vprochem, mnogie nashi prepodavateli cherpali znanija iz togo zhe istochnika. Tak vot, eto ne Filosofskij slovar. Esli vy ne chitali "Bratev Karamazovykh", to esse Shishkina o Dostoevskom ne pomozhet vam ponjat soderzhanie etoj knigi. On pishet dlja tekh, kto chital i perechityval."Novaja gazeta. EvropaV oformlenii oblozhki ispolzovan fragment kartiny Igorja Bitmana "Zimnij den v Utopii".

Roman Mikhaila Shishkina "Venerin volos" byl udostoen srazu trekh prestizhnykh literaturnykh premij: "Bolshaja kniga", "Natsionalnyj bestseller" i imeni I.Bunina. Po ego motivam postavlen spektakl "Samoe vazhnoe" v teatre-studii Petra Fomenko. Izvestnyj prozaik, zhivuschij poslednie gody v Shvejtsarii, esche raz dokazal, chto "vysokaja proza" nuzhna chitatelju."Venerin volos - eto travka-muravka, v mimoletnom gorode Rime - sornjak, a v Rossii - komnatnoe rastenie, kotoroe bez chelovecheskogo tepla ne vyzhivaet... Ja pisal etot roman v Shvejtsarii, vo Frantsii, v Rime. On ochen russkij, no odnovremenno vykhodit za granitsy russkogo mira, ne pomeschaetsja v nikh..." (Mikhail Shishkin).

Mikhail Shishkin rodilsja v Moskve v 1961 godu, zhivet v Shvejtsarii. Avtor romanov "Zapiski Larionova", "Vzjatie Izmaila", "Venerin volos", "Pismovnik" i literaturno-istoricheskogo putevoditelja "Russkaja Shvejtsarija". Laureat premij "Bolshaja kniga", "Russkij Buker" i "Natsionalnyj bestseller"."V etoj knige sobrany teksty, napisannye raznym mnoj po mere priblizhenija. Kto-to skazal, chto kultura voznikla iz chuvstva odinochestva pered smertju. Est legenda ob uznike, prigovorennom k pozhiznennomu zakljucheniju v odinochke. On godami cherenkom tjuremnoj lozhki tsarapal na stene lodku. I vot odnazhdy emu prinesli, kak obychno, vodu, khleb i balandu, no kamera okazalas pustoj, a stena chistoj. On sel v svoju natsarapannuju lodku i uplyl.Kniga - eto lodka. Nuzhno prosto tak ozhivit slova, chtoby lodka stala nastojaschej, chtoby v nee mozhno bylo sest i uplyt k tem, kto tebja ljubit i zhdet. Kultura voznikla ne iz odinochestva, a iz chelovecheskogo tepla". (Mikhail Shishkin)Soderzhanie:Palto s khljastikomVilgelm Tell kak zerkalo russkikh revoljutsijKampanila Svjatogo MarkaRodina zhdet vas!V lodke, natsarapannoj na steneSpasennyj jazykChelovek kak objasnenie sveta v ljubviUrok kalligrafiiGul zatikhKljaksa NabokovaKastrjulja i zvezdopadBukva na sneguValzer i TomtsakBolshe chem DzhojsBegun i korabl

Romaanis "Kiri sinule" pöördub aastaid Shveitsis elanud vene kirjanik Mihhail Shishkin (s 1961 Moskvas) tagasi ammu unustatud epistolaarse zhanri juurde. See on romaan kirjades, armastajate dialoog, kilomeetreid ja kalendreid trotsiv salajane vestlus, mis kulgeb ajas ja väljaspool aega, läbi sõja ja olmeraskuste, ning kestab kauem kui elu.Pealtnäha on kõik lihtne: poiss, tüdruk, kirjad, suvila, esimene armastus. Pretensioonitu ülesehitusega "Kiri sinule" on küllap kergemini loetav kui "Veenuse juus" või "Izmaili vallutamine". Ent süzhee lihtsus on petlik. Ümbrikust pudenev paberileht lööb maailma uppi, aegadevaheline side katkeb. Minevik muutub olevikuks: Shakespeare ja Marco Polo, polaarlenduri seiklused ja Vene vägede pealetung Pekingile. See on romaan saladusest. Sellest, et surm on samasugune and nagu armastus.