The Suitcase (novel)

	The Suitcase (novel) ''The Suitcase'' (russian: links=no, Чемодан, Chemodan) is a novel by Sergei Dovlatov, published in Russian in 1986 and in English translation by Antonina W. Bouis Antonina W. Bouis is a German literary translator from Russian to English. She has been called "the best literary translator from Russian" by ''Publishers Weekly''. Life Born in West Germany, Bouis was educated in the United States. She has degre ... in 1990. Although loosely connected into a novel, ''The Suitcase'' is a collection of eight stories of life in the Soviet Union based on eight items brought in the author's suitcase from the USSR to exile in the US in 1978. References 1986 Russian novels Novels by Sergei Dovlatov {{1980s-novel-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Sergei Dovlatov Sergei Donatovich Dovlatov (russian: link=no, Сергей Донатович Довлатов; 1941 1990) was a Soviet journalist and writer. Internationally, he is one of the most popular Russian writers of the late 20th century. Biography Dovlatov was born on 3 September 1941 in Ufa, the capital of Bashkir ASSR in the Soviet Union, where his family had been evacuated in the beginning of World War II from Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg) and lived with a collaborator of The People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs (NKVD) for three years. His mother, Nora Dovlatova, was Armenian and worked as a proofreader, and his father, , was Jewish and a theater director. After 1944, he lived with his mother in Leningrad. Dovlatov studied at the Finnish Department of Leningrad State University, but flunked after two and a half years. There, he became acquainted with the Leningrad poets Yevgeny Rein, Anatoly Naiman, Joseph Brodsky, the writer Sergey Wolf, and the artist Alexander Ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Antonina W Antonina may refer to: Geography * Antonina, Paraná, a municipality in Brazil * Antonina, Bełchatów County, in Łódź Voivodeship, central Poland * Antonina, Pajęczno County, in Łódź Voivodeship, central Poland * Antonina, Poddębice County, in Łódź Voivodeship, central Poland * Antonina, Masovian Voivodeship, east-central Poland Other uses * Antonina (bug), ''Antonina'' (bug), a genus of mealybugs * Antonina (name) * Antonina (wife of Belisarius) (c. 495–after 565), Byzantine patrikia and wife of the general Belisarius * ''Antonina'' (Tur novel), by Evgenia Tur * ''Antonina'' (Collins novel), an 1850 novel by Wilkie Collins See also * Antonia (other) * Antonine (name) {{disambiguation, geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
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	Mark Lipovetsky Mark Naumovich Lipovetsky (russian: Mарк Наумович Липовецкий; born June 2, 1964) is a Russian literary, film, and cultural critic who advocates the position that postmodernism is replacing socialist realism as the dominant art movement in Russia. His major interests include 20th century Russian literature, Russian postmodernism, fairy-tales, Mikhail Bakhtin's carnival, totalitarian and post-communist cultures. Early life and career Lipovetsky was born in Yekaterinburg, and he attended school there. He moved to the U.S. in 1996. He was a professor with the Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures and joint faculty member at the Comparative Literature Program at the University of Colorado at Boulder. In 2019 he joined the Slavic Department at Columbia University with a goal of focusing on contemporary Russian culture within the Harriman Institute. In 2021, he and Vadim N. Gladyshev received the George Gamow Award, named for the Russian-speaki ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	1986 Russian Novels The year 1986 was designated as the International Year of Peace by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 Aruba gains increased autonomy from the Netherlands by separating from the Netherlands Antilles. Spain and Portugal enter the European Community, which becomes the European Union in 1993. January 11 – The Sir Leo Hielscher Bridges, Gateway Bridge in Brisbane, Australia, at this time the world's longest prestressed concrete free-cantilever bridge, is opened. January 13–January 24, 24 – South Yemen Civil War. January 20 – The United Kingdom and France announce plans to construct the Channel Tunnel. January 24 – The Voyager 2 space probe makes its first encounter with Uranus. January 25 – Yoweri Museveni's National Resistance Army Rebel group takes over Uganda after leading a five-year guerrilla war in which up to half a million people are believed to have been killed. They will later use January 26 as the official date to avoid a coincidence of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]