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To the Stars and Other Stories

Fyodor Sologub Translated by Susanne Fusso

This book brings together remarkable short stories by the Russian symbolist Fyodor Sologub that explore the lengths to which people will go to transcend the mundane. Renowned as one of late imperial Russia’s finest stylists, Sologub bridges the great nineteenth-century novel and the fin-de-siècle avant-garde.

$17.95 / £14.99 paper 978-0-231-20005-9 $40.00 / £30.00 cloth 978-0-231-20004-2 September 2022 304 pages

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Homeward from Heaven

Boris Poplavsky Translated by Bryan Karetnyk

Homeward from Heaven is Boris Poplavsky’s masterpiece, written just before his life was cut short by a drug overdose at the age of thirtytwo. Set in Paris and on the French Riviera, it recounts the escapades, malaise, and love affairs of a bohemian group of Russian expatriates.

$16.95 / £12.99 paper 978-0-231-19931-5 $40.00 / £30.00 cloth 978-0-231-19930-8 June 2022 304 pages 1 illus.

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Stravaging “Strange”

Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky Translated by Joanne Turnbull with Nikolai Formozov

This book presents three tales that encapsulate Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky’s gift for creating philosophical, satirical, and lyrical phantasmagorias. It also includes excerpts from his notebooks—aphoristic glimpses of his worldview, moods, humor, and writing methods—and reminiscences of Krzhizhanovsky by his lifelong companion, Anna Bovshek.

$17.95 / £14.99 paper 978-0-231-19947-6 $40.00 / £30.00 cloth 978-0-231-19946-9 September 2022 232 pages

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Countries That Don’t Exist

Selected Nonfiction Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky Edited by Jacob Emery and Alexander Spektor

Almost unknown during his lifetime, Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky is now hailed as a master of Russian prose. His short stories and novels, unpublishable under Stalinism but rediscovered long after his death, have drawn comparisons to the works of Jorge Luis Borges for their distinctive blend of metafictional play and philosophical thought experiment.

$19.95 / £14.99 paper 978-0-23120237-4 $40.00 / £30.00 cloth 978-0-231-20236-7 February 2022 256 pages

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The Life Written by Himself

Archpriest Avvakum Translated by Kenneth N. Brostrom

Archpriest Avvakum’s autobiography is a record of his life, ecclesiastical career, painful exile, religious persecution, and imprisonment, written in the 1660s and ’70s from a cell in an Arctic village where the archpriest had been imprisoned by the tsar.

$19.95 / £14.99 paper 978-0-231-19809-7 $40.00 / £30.00 cloth 978-0-231-19808-0 2021 208 pages 5 illus.

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The Symphonies

Andrei Bely Translated by Jonathan Stone

This book presents Andrei Bely’s four Symphonies—“Dramatic Symphony,” “Northern Symphony,” “The Return,” and “Goblet of Blizzards”—fantastically strange stories and quintessential works of modernist innovation.

$24.95 / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-19909-4 $40.00 / £34.00 cloth 978-0-231-19908-7 2021 512 pages

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The Voice Over

Poems and Essays Maria Stepanova Edited by Irina Shevelenko

Maria Stepanova is one of the most powerful and distinctive voices of Russia’s first postSoviet literary generation. The Voice Over brings together two decades of Stepanova’s work, showcasing her range, virtuosity, and creative evolution.

$19.95 / £14.99 paper 978-0-231-19617-8 $40.00 / £30.00 cloth 978-0-231-19616-1 May 2021 392 pages

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The Little Devil and Other Stories

Alexei Remizov Translated by Antonina W. Bouis

Alexei Remizov was one of the greatest writers of the Russian symbolist movement. In the thirteen stories collected in this volume, his exceptional stylistic achievements are on full display. The Little Devil and Other Stories includes works from across Remizov’s career encompassing his thematic preoccupations and stylistic experimentation.

$16.95 / £13.99 paper 978-0-231-18381-9 $40.00 / £30.00 cloth 978-0-231-18380-2 2021 336 pages

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