Captives (Vol.11 of the GLAS Series) (Glas: New Russian Writing)
By Unknown Author.
Description
When the Booker Prize Committee decided to institute a special Booker Russian Novel Prize, there were no other literary prizes in the post-perestroika Russia, the official Soviet prizes for literature having been abolished shortly after the collapse of communism, when most state-subsidized publishing also closed down. This left Russian authors with little choice but to flee abroad in search of employment and publishers, while most of those who stayed declared that the end of Russian literature had arrived, and set about dividing up the property of the Writer's Union among themselves. A...
ISBN(s)
5717200277, 9785717200271
