Literature

Masha Belyavski-Frank

Grapevine and Rose: Muslim Oral Ballads from Bosnia-Herzegovina

An important part of Balkan folk literature, oral ballads of the Muslims in Bosnia-Herzegovina are part of the European tradition of ballads. One of the broad themes that one encounters repeatedly in Bosnian Muslim oral ballads is the stepping outside of...

Mikoś, Michael J

City of Memory: A Bilingual Anthology of Contemporary Polish Poetry

City of Memory brings together 122 poems written by 21 authors in the last quarter century. These writers draw upon the deep-rooted tradition of Polish literature established by poets like Kochanowski, Norwid, and Herbert, whose worldviews and...

Kotlerman, Ber

Disenchanted Tailor in “Illusion”

A simple tailor, the protagonist of the great Yiddish author Sholem Aleichem’s last theatrical drama, suddenly becomes rich, but loses his money on account of an obscure cinema deal. The author’s son-in-law and assistant, Y.D. Berkowitz,...

Crone, Anna Lisa

Anna Lisa Crone: Collected Writings Volume 2: Rozanov and Philosophical Literature

The second volume of Anna Lisa Crone’s Collected Writings collects her work on Russian philosophical literature, above all on Vasilij Rozanov, reprinting inter alia her long-out-of-print 1978 monograph based on her Harvard Ph.D. dissertation. Anna...

Scherr, Barry

Poetry & Poetics: A Centennial Tribute to Kiril Taranovsky

During a distinguished academic career at Belgrade University, UCLA, and Harvard University, Kiril Taranovsky became extraordinarily influential for his contributions to verse theory and for studies devoted to Russian poets, especially those of the...

Coffin, Lyn

Georgian Poetry: Rustaveli to Galaktion

The poetry of Georgia, a country of ancient culture in the South Caucasus, is the crown jewel of its exceptionally rich literary heritage. Secular poetry, having emerged from the fusion of folk poems and religious hymns and homilies of the early...

Crone, Anna Lisa

Anna Lisa Crone: Collected Writings Volume 1: Poetry

This is the first of three volumes which comprise a set of Anna Lisa Crone's Collected Writings. Volume 1 collects her solo writings on Russian poetry, including an excerpt from her monograph on Gavrila Deržavin. Anna Lisa Crone had a 30-year career as a...

By Aleksander Wat, Translated by Frank L. Vigoda, Edited and with an Introduction by Gwido Zlatkes

Against the Devil in History: Poems, Short Stories, Essays, Fragments

Aleksander Wat. This extraordinary poet can be seen against the background of three periods of the 20th century. Born in 1900 to a Jewish merchant family in Warsaw, he became an anarchist and futurist, edited a communist journal, and was imprisoned by...

Judith Deutsch Kornblatt (ed.)

American Contributions to the 16th International Congress of Slavists Vol. 2: Literature

The 2018 volumes of American contributions to the quintennial series of international congresses bringing together the world's Slavists provides a representative sampling of current trends in Slavic literature, linguistics, and philology as practiced in...

by Bohumil Hrabal, translated by Timothy West

Murder Ballads and Other Legends

“Some texts, after I’ve written them, have woken me up in the night so that I break out in a sweat and jump out of bed.” With this confession Bohumil Hrabal concludes Murder Ballads and Other Legends, a genre-bending collection of...

Anna Starobinets, translated by Katherine E. Young

Look at Him

Journalist, scriptwriter, and novelist Anna Starobinets-often called "Russia's Stephen King"-is best known for her work in horror and her writing for children. In this groundbreaking memoir, Starobinets chronicles the devastating loss of her unborn son...

Pavol Rankov, translated by Madgalena Mullek

It Happened on the First of September (or Some Other Time)

Winner of the European Union Prize for Literature. "It's where we've ended up. Not because of our own mistakes, because of politics. We weren't able to live our own lives; we had to live the way we were told to." - Maria (excerpt from book) "It...