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Life Without: Selected Poetry and Prose 1992-2003
Tatiania Shcherbina
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Description for Life Without: Selected Poetry and Prose 1992-2003
Paperback. Tatiana Shcherbina has been described as 'one of the most significant figures in contemporary Russian poetry'. In her recent work, the elegant and ironic narrator meditates on love, disappointment and loss against the backdrop of Russia's social collapse. This is a selection of her poetry and prose. Translator(s): Dugdale, Sasha. Num Pages: 139 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 220 x 140 x 9. Weight in Grams: 227.
Tatiana Shcherbina has been described as ‘one of the most significant figures in contemporary Russian poetry’ (Kommersant’). In her recent work the elegant and ironic narrator meditates on love, disappointment and loss against the backdrop of Russia’s social collapse. Sometimes her poems take the form of overtly political statements (‘Dictatorship, democracy’), sometimes new capitalist Russia is reflected merely in the emotional plane – in a poem on lost love she claims she has paid the highest rate: cash. Whilst her themes are timeless, Shcherbina’s settings are distinctly contemporary. She writes about sitting at a computer gazing into the Microsoft ... Read more
Tatiana Shcherbina has been described as ‘one of the most significant figures in contemporary Russian poetry’ (Kommersant’). In her recent work the elegant and ironic narrator meditates on love, disappointment and loss against the backdrop of Russia’s social collapse. Sometimes her poems take the form of overtly political statements (‘Dictatorship, democracy’), sometimes new capitalist Russia is reflected merely in the emotional plane – in a poem on lost love she claims she has paid the highest rate: cash. Whilst her themes are timeless, Shcherbina’s settings are distinctly contemporary. She writes about sitting at a computer gazing into the Microsoft ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloodaxe Books Ltd London
Number of pages
139
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781852246426
SKU
V9781852246426
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About Tatiania Shcherbina
Tatiania Shcherbina was born in Moscow in 1954. Before 1999, she worked on Radio Liberty and four of her collections were published in samizdat. Since 1999, she has published six volumes of poetry and prose in Russia and two poetry collections in French, her adopted mother tongue. She has been a journalist and a reviewer for several Russian newspapers. In ... Read more
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