This new collection views Russian music through the Greek triad of "the Good, the True, and the Beautiful" to investigate how the idea of "nation" embeds itself in the public discourse about music and other arts with results at times invigorating, at times corrupting. In our divided, post-Cold War, and now post-9/11 world, Russian music, formerly a quiet corner on the margins of musicology, has become a site of noisy contention. Richard Taruskin assesses the political and cultural stakes that at...
The Drops of Life - Kapli Jizni (Russian Edition)
by MR Alexandr Atamanchuk
Russian literature begins with the nineteenth century, that is to say with the reign of Alexander I. It was then that the literary fruits on which Russia has since fed were born. The seeds were sown, of course, centuries earlier; but the history of Russian literature up to the nineteenth century is not a history of literature, it is the history of Russia. It may well be objected that it is difficult to separate Russian literature from Russian history; that for the understanding of Russian litera...
I Wrote Stone: The Selected Poetry of Ryszard Kapuscinski (Biblioasis International Translation Series, #1)
by Ryszard Kapuscinski
Bringing together for the first time in English a selection of poems from his two previously published collections, Kapuscinski offers up a thoughtful, philosophical verse, often aphoristic in tone and structure, that is engaged politically, morally, and viscerally with the world around him. Translated from the Polish.
Alexander Kushner. Bilingual Poetry Collection (Russian Word Without Borders)
by Alexander Kushner
Marvelous Sketchbook (123 Shades of Sketch & Design, #1)
by Roselyn Connson
Ya vas lubil - Стихотворения
by Alexander Pushkin
Milestones (Vyorsty) is an early collection by Marina Tsvetaeva (1892-1941), published in Moscow in 1922, before she left the country for the West. The book celebrates--among other things-her friendship with fellow-poet, Osip Mandelstam, and was her most innovative collection to that point, as well as an indication of the way her work would develop in her full maturity as a writer.
