Glas 24: Red Bread (Glass Innactive Series) - Softcover

Alexander Genis

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1566633362 ISBN 13: 9781566633369

Publisher: UNKNO, 2000

Synopsis

Book by Genis, Alexander

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About the Author

One of the best essayists writing in Russian today, Alexander Genis inhabits that stimulating borderland between the civilizations of Russia and America, created by the "great migration."
Born in 1953 in Soviet Latvia, Genis emigrated in 1977 to the United States. There he teamed with Peter Vail to write such contemporary classics as Native Tongue, a new look at Russian literature; Paradise Lost: Russian Cuisine in Exile; Americana, reflections on Russian-American cross-cultural phenomena, and Inside the Soviet Mind, aphoristic reminiscences of the Soviet 1960s.
Says Genis: "Soviet rule began 36 years before I was born and ended 36 years after with the fall of the Berlin Wall. Although I was born in the middle of this epoch, I feel less a witness to it than a refugee from it. My life has always consisted of personal events, nothing historical. Which is why I dare to review the past. I am a slave to the common-sense narrative."
Since 1990, Genis has been writing on his own. His books include Russian Postmodernism, new perspectives on post-Soviet culture; Dovlatov and Environs, literary nonfiction (the book was short-listed for the Russian Booker Prize in 1999); Tower of Babel, a collection of cultural studies on the fin de siecle state of the world; USA from A to Y, and Ivan Petrovich is Dead, a collection of essays published over the last ten years. In Russia Genis is widely popular as a presenter of the daily cultural program on Radio Liberty, "Above the Barriers" as well as a prolific contributor to leading literary journals. All of his books are "intellectual bestsellers."

Review

Russia remains a country of distinguished writers, and Glas, provides a welcome overview of the current state of Russian literary affairs. (Montreal Gazette )

If you can't find Glas in the shops, ask for it. This journal deserves wide distribution. (The Irish Times )

Nobody who purports to be interested in Russian literature should be without Glas. (Moscow Times )

Glas is first rate...well planned and well translated. Anyone interested in Russia and good writing should seek it out. (London Observer )

The writing in Glas offers startling evidence that the great Russian literary tradition lives on. (American Bookseller )

Glas has become almost disturbingly indispensable. The texts and voices out of Russia come through with formidable insistence. (George Steiner )

Edition details

• Publisher: UNKNO
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1566633362
• ISBN 13: 9781566633369
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 148