Sofia Andreevna Tolstaya: Literary works

[J.W.]

Ottawa (Canada), Tuesday 3/1/12 12h05 EST



Dear SEELANGers,



This is to announce the forthcoming publication -- by the Slavic Research
Group at the University of Ottawa and the State L.N. Tolstoy Museum in
Moscow -- of *Sofia Andreevna Tolstaya: Literary works* by the Group’s
Director, Andrew Donskov, F.R.S.C.   This is a follow-up volume to
Tolstaya’s extensive autobiographical memoir *My life,* which Donskov
published in 2010 through the University of Ottawa Press, in an English
translation by John Woodsworth and Arkadi Klioutchanski.  (This translation
recently won the Lois Roth Award presented by the Modern Language
Association of America for the best translation of a literary work into
English.)



The new book presents (a) a critical study of Tolstaya’s overall literary
output (with subchapters on her individual works) and (b) an anthology,
compiled for the first time in a single volume, of her major literary works
in their original Russian, including:* *contributions to Tolstoy’s *Novaya
azbuka;* *Kukolki-skelettsy i drugie rasskazy; *the novella *Ch’ja vina?*;  the
narrative *Pesnja bez slov;* the poem in prose *Stony;* excerpts from *Moja
zhizn’;* along with a number of her poems.



Also included in this volume is a chronology of Tolstaya’s life (covering
some 70 pages, including extensive footnotes) and a 45-page bibliography,
along with an index of names, as well as a number of illustrations.



Plans for an English translation of Tolstaya’s literary works by members of
the Slavic Research Group are already underway.



The book is due out by the end of January.  For further information, please
contact the Slavic Research Group at the University of Ottawa:

e-mail: slavicre at uottawa.ca

telephone: 613-562-5800 X1007

postal address: 134--70, Laurier Avenue East / Ottawa, Canada  K1N 6N5


John Woodsworth, Administrative Assistant & Research Associate

Slavic Research Group at the University of Ottawa

http://kanadacha.ca

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