Voices of Russian Literature Interviews with Ten Contemporary Writers [Hardcover]

Voices of Russian Literaturepresents in-depth interviews with ten of the most interesting figures writing in Russian today. These figures range from established authors such as Andrei Bitov and Ludmilla Petrushevskaya, who began their careers in the post-Stalinist thaw of the 1950s, to newcomers like Viktor Pelevin, hailed as one of the most original writers of the present era. This collection offers an insider's account of the fate of Russian literature over the past four decades.

Introduction
Fazil Iskander
Ludmilla Petrushevskaya
Vladimir Makanin
Andrei Bitov
Tatyana Tolstaya
Yevgeny Popov
Vladimir Sorokin
Zufar Gareev
Viktor Pelevin
Igor Pomerantsev
General Bibliography
Index

This splendid collection offers unusually engrossing interviews with a diverse selection of contemporary Russian prosaists....[Laird's] prose is crisp and lucid, her translations fully idiomatic...the interviews brim with unexpected and eloquent insights...thought-provoking reading...all of the interviews contain impressive riches...All general and academic collections. --Choice

This series of conversations with writers, who are not yet as well known in the West as they might be, offers a fascinating insight into the beliefs and attitudes of the Russian generations after Pasternak and Solzhenitsyn. --Times Literary Supplement

Sally Lairdis a freelance writer and translator, currently teaching at the European Film College in Denmark.