Julieta Almeida Rodrigues

On the Way to Red Square

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Produktbeschreibung

On the Way to Red Square is a compelling collection of short stories set in Soviet Moscow in the 1980's. Julieta Rodrigues meshes fictional personal subject matter with social and political issues to produce a moving and thought-provoking book. "On the Way to Red Square exceeds the boundaries it has created for itself: between the private and the political, the everyday and the theatrical, love and alienation, informers and their victims, life and death, joy and sadness, Russians and foreigners, 'us' versus 'them.' The ineffable language of pain and inquisitive openness and the resulting vision of the stern Soviet Moscow is hauntingly revealing, at the same time the distant and the close glance that Victor Shklovsky aptly defines." -Olga Meerson, Professor of Russian, Georgetown University "Julieta Rodrigues has neatly captured the gray, gritty, every-day essence of life in the Soviet Union that I saw in the early 1980's. From the snowy and dismal streets to the bathhouses and garish hotels, she has preserved lost fragments of communist Moscow in her amber stories." - Jon Purnell, Tashkent, Uzbekistan "In a book as teeming with characters as a 19th century Russian novel, but entirely modern in its concerns, we accompany Laura, narrator and protagonist, through gripping and candid stories: the angry young man in 'Caged,' living in a cramped collective where people must line up to use the toilet; the disappointed, power-abusing official, Lyudmila, in 'Glass Silhouettes,' obsessed with her collection of glass miniatures; and, in the last story, 'New Year's Eve at the Praga,' an enigmatic blonde dancing alone, as intriguing and ambiguous to the little band of Americans as is Moscow itself. Rodrigues reminds me of Chekhov. - Robbie Murphy, Best American Short Stories (under the name of Roberta Gupta)

Produktdetails

• Verlag: NAP/SCARITH
• Seitenzahl: 188
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 245g
• ISBN-13: 9780976704270
• ISBN-10: 0976704277
• Artikelnr.: 20989494

Autorenporträt

Julieta Almeida Rodrigues is a writer, professor, scholar, and interpreter. Born and raised in Portugal, she earned a Ph.D. at Columbia University. She is the author of two collections of short fiction, The Rogue and Other Portuguese Stories and On the Way to Red Square. The latter is a fictionalized account of her life in the diplomatic circles of Moscow in the 1980s (New Academia Publishing, Washington DC). She published a narrative work about Sintra, Portugal, entitled Hora Crepuscular/Drawing Dusk/La Hora Crepuscular (Agir, Execução Gráfica). She is a member of the Pen Club of Portugal, the Fulbright Commission Team of Evaluators in Portugal (2014 Prize for International Cooperation, the Prince of Asturias Foundation), and of CLEPUL, Center for Lusophone and European Literatures and Cultures, Faculty of Humanities, the University of Lisbon. She has taught at the University of Lisbon and at Georgetown University, and has been a Visiting Scholar at the New School (twice). She has spoken at the Foreign Service Institute, U.S. Department of State, The Chawton House Library in the United Kingdom, The International Conference on the Short Story, The American Portuguese Studies Association, and the Historical Writers of America, among other locations. She is a member of the Steering Committee of the Historical Novel Society New York City Chapter and runs, with a colleague, its Guest Speaker Program at the Jefferson Market Library. She divides her time between Manhattan and Sintra, Portugal.