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May 17, 2014
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Apr 24, 2018 · And, in the first story of the Russian writer Tatyana Tolstaya’s “Aetherial Worlds,” the narrator reports another return of the repressed: after eye surgery (in 1983, the razor-blade era ...
Apr 9, 2018 · A prominent author and often acerbic commentator on contemporary Russia, Tatyana Tolstaya’s new collection of short stories, Aetherial Worlds, encompasses journalistic frankness and visionary lyricism as it flits between Russia and America, exploring themes of legacy, love and identity. 9 April 2018. Text: Daniel Witkin.
Book Summary. From one of modern Russia's finest writers, a spellbinding collection of eighteen stories, her first to be translated into English in more than twenty years. Ordinary realities and yearnings to transcend them lead to miraculous other worlds in this dazzling collection of stories.
The first story in “Aetherial Worlds,” a new collection from the Russian writer Tatyana Tolstaya, describes an excruciating three-month convalescence from corrective eye surgery. This is...
May 17, 2014 · From one of modern Russia's finest writers, a spellbinding collection of eighteen stories, her first to be translated into English in more than twenty years. Ordinary realities and yearnings to transcend them lead to miraculous other worlds in this dazzling collection of stories.
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- Tatyana Tolstaya
Mar 22, 2018 · Some stories, like the title work, which details a narrator named Tatyana’s unhappy experience teaching creative writing to American college students in 1992 and owning a home in New Jersey with endless problems, seem straightforwardly autobiographical.
Tolstaya’s tales—rendered with the emotional insight of Chekhov, the surreal satire of Gogol, and a unique blend of humor and poetry all her own—transmute the quotidian into aetherial wonders. As these stories explore politics, identity, love, and loss, they cut to the quick of the Russian psyche even as they lay bare human universals.
