GR in Russian

[Max Nemtsov]

right, Tolstaya is good, although she doesn't write anymore, but she 
used to be a good stylist. nowadays, she's more of a tv personality
if you liked her work, you might like another grand lady of contemporary 
ruslit, Lyudmila Ulitskaya: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyudmila_Ulitskaya
as for Politkovskaya murdered in 2006, she was a warrior, and definitely 
"the victim of the regime," no doubt about it, but i have hard time 
thinking of her as a literary figure. she was an excellent journalist, 
after all, not a literary author
Mx

On 31.08.2012 21:26, Phillip Greenlief wrote:
> i like tatiana tolstaya (great grand-niece of tolstoy, lived in the 
> states for a while, but eventually went back to russia) quite a lot 
> ... her collection of stories ON THE GOLDEN PORCH was really nice, and 
> her novel THE SLYNNX was even better - kind of like dostoevsky writing 
> a post-apocalyptic novel. her collection of stories entitled 
> SLEEPWALKER IN THE FOG was a little too much like the title for me ... 
> meandering a bit, not so focused and urgent as the others. maybe i 
> should go back and re-read some of that ... might have a different 
> impression now.
> for non-fiction, i liked the two books that anna politkovskaya wrote 
> on the chechen war (A DIRTY WAR and A SMALL CORNER OF HELL) and ) - 
> she is pretty controversial, depending which side of the political 
> fence you're on .... she was finally assassinated a year ago - or 
> more. i'm sure max (and every other intelligent russian) has an 
> opinion on her.
>
>
> Phillip Greenlief
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *From:* "kelber at mindspring.com" <kelber at mindspring.com>
> *To:* pynchon-l at waste.org
> *Sent:* Fri, August 31, 2012 8:15:47 AM
> *Subject:* Re: GR in Russian
>
> The list's just as impressive without Lovecraft.  Question: Can you 
> recommend any contemporary Russian writers who've been translated into 
> English?
>
> Laura
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> >From: Max Nemtsov <max.nemtsov at gmail.com <mailto:max.nemtsov at gmail.com>>
> >Sent: Aug 31, 2012 8:58 AM
> >To: kelber at mindspring.com <mailto:kelber at mindspring.com>
> >Cc: pynchon-l at waste.org <mailto:pynchon-l at waste.org>
> >Subject: Re: GR in Russian
> >
> >thank you. Laura, and everyone
> >well, lovecraft's not on the list actually, when i was very young i
> >translated a book by august derleth, it just got mixed into the cauldron
> >by the latest publisher
> >as for the rest, been doing this for a long time, so
> >Mx
> >
> >On 31.08.2012 16:53, kelber at mindspring.com 
> <mailto:kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:
> >> Congratulations, Max and Anastasia.  By the way, that's quite a 
> list of authors you've translated.  Huxley, Lovecraft, DeLillo, and on 
> and on.  Impressive!
> >>
> >> Laura
> >>
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >>> From: Max Nemtsov <max.nemtsov at gmail.com 
> <mailto:max.nemtsov at gmail.com>>
> >>> Sent: Aug 31, 2012 4:39 AM
> >>> To: pynchon-l <pynchon-l at waste.org <mailto:pynchon-l at waste.org>>
> >>> Subject: GR in Russian
> >>>
> >>> dear colleagues -
> >>>
> >>> so, it finally happened, and since this week, Gravity's Rainbow
> >>> officially exists in Russian, complete with 760 pages, and seven 
> little
> >>> squares between episodes
> >>>
> >>> it took my colleague Anastasia Gryzunova and me several years to
> >>> complete it, and we thank all of you who could help and advice us, no
> >>> matter how indirectly
> >>>
> >>> today it appeared in the largest Russian internet bookstore Ozon:
> >>>http://www.ozon.ru/context/detail/id/18529078/ - that operates
> >>> internationally, although the interface is in Russian only, alas. oh,
> >>> and the first edition is cautious 2000 only
> >>>
> >>> the first edition is glossy gray, with no misleading images on the
> >>> cover, thank God, but the second one, planned for September, is kinda
> >>> pop-art, here's the preview:http://fantlab.ru/edition91468 - this one
> >>> seems to be planned as 3000, the publisher is the same but the
> >>> department within it is different, so don't ask
> >>>
> >>> while i'm not sure about the rest of TRP's novels in Russian 
> (after the
> >>> COL49, that is) for the texts of V. and Vineland are in different 
> states
> >>> of disarray, to the best of my knowledge, and i'm not aware what the
> >>> publisher is going to do with them, i can safely say that last week i
> >>> submitted my translation of Inherent Vice to them, so there's hope 
> that
> >>> it will be published some time
> >>>
> >>> again, thank you all so much for making our lives more intricate,
> >>> Mx
> >
>

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