MU Libraries New Books: Slavic languages. Baltic languages. Albanian language

About the new book list

5/22/2013

The RSS feeds for the new books list is updated every Wednesday and contains a list of books added to the Ellis Library collection for the last six weeks. The titles are grouped by call number classification, and are listed by week and alphabetically by title.

Books for the most recent weeks are currently on the New Books Shelves inside the north entrance of Ellis Library. They can be checked out.

Three sisters : a comedy in four acts / by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov translated by Lanford Wilson. (5/22/2013)

5/22/2013

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From Booklist

It was inevitable that the American theater's most Chekhovian writer, Lanford Wilson, would be asked to translate Chekhov. The great Russian's influence marks virtually all of Wilson's plays, from Balm in Gilead to Fifth of July and Talley's Folly. What could not have been predicted was how sensitive and intelligent a translator Wilson would be. First commissioned by the Hartford Stage Company in the early 1980s and rewritten several times since its first production in 1984, Wilson's Three Sisters is a breathtaking, evocative work in which every character springs to life on the page. Of course, even in stilted translations, one feels for the play's central characters--Olga, Masha, and Irina--and their fruitless yearning to transcend their petty lives and see Moscow. But in Wilson's literate, highly readable version, one comes to understand and feel sympathy even for the play's so-called villainess, the gauche upstart sister-in-law, Natalya. We eagerly await Wilson's next translating project: Uncle Vanya. Jack Helbig

Call #: PG3456.T8 W55 1994

Political action in Václav Havel's thought : the responsibility of resistance / Delia Popescu. (5/15/2013)

5/15/2013

Call #: PG5039.18.A9 Z86 2012

Still waters run deep : young women's writing from Russia. (5/8/2013)

5/8/2013

Call #: PG3213 .S65 2012

The enigma of Isaac Babel : biography, history, context / edited by Gregory Freidin. (5/8/2013)

5/8/2013

Call #: PG3476.B2 Z657 2009

The secret history of Vladimir Nabokov / Andrea Pitzer. (5/8/2013)

5/8/2013

Call #: PG3476.N3 Z825 2013

The bridge over the Neroch & other works / Leonid Tsypkin translated from the Russian by Jamey Gambrell. (5/1/2013)

5/1/2013

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Call #: PG3489.S976 A2 2012

Aspects of Dostoevskii : art, ethics and faith / edited by Robert Reid and Joe Andrew. (4/24/2013)

4/24/2013

Call #: PG3328.Z6 A874 2012

Bakhtin and his Others : (inter)subjectivity, chronotope, dialogism / edited by Liisa Steinby and Tintti Klapuri. (4/24/2013)

4/24/2013

Call #: PG2947.B3 B325 2013

Irresolute heresiarch : Catholicism, Gnosticism and Paganism in the poetry of Czesław Miłosz / by Charles S. Kraszewski. (4/24/2013)

4/24/2013

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About the Author

Charles S. Kraszewski is a poet, translator, and literary critic, specializing in the literatures of Europe, specifically Polish, Czech and Slovak. He has published several books in literary criticism and translation theory; his articles and translations have appeared in journals both in North America and Poland, including The New Yorker, Canadian Slavonic Papers, Paideuma and Odra. A collection of his verse, Diet of Nails, is in production at ervenÃƒÂ¡ Barva Press. He currently teaches at King s College in Pennsylvania.

Call #: PG7158.M5532 K737 2012

Sonechka and other stories / Ludmila Ulitskaya. (4/24/2013)

4/24/2013

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Review

"Ulitskaya's fresh, delicately sensual writing, full of the joys and pitfalls of every day, is a world away from the gloomy, fear-driven reflections on the plight of human beings under the Soviet heel. Sonechka, twisting and turning unexpectedly among a small group of sympathetically drawn characters and across the generations, is in the end a tribute to the civilizing, humanly sustaining power of reading. With Ulitskaya, contemporary Russian fiction rediscovers a consoling and universal normality."-Lesley Chamberlain

Call #: PG3489.2.L58 B4313 1998

Tolstoy on war : narrative art and historical truth in "War and peace" / edited by Rick McPeak and Donna Tussing Orwin. (4/24/2013)

4/24/2013

Call #: PG3365.V65 T65 2012

880-02 Edinstvo inoskazanii︠a︡ : o narrativnoĭ poėtike romanov Gaĭto Gazdanova / E.N. Proskurina otv. redaktor E.K. Romodanovskai︠a︡. (3/27/2013)

3/27/2013

Call #: PG3476.G39 Z85 2009