Russian Love Stories

The Editor: Nadya L. Peterson is Associate Professor of Russian at Hunter College of the City University of New York. She also teaches in the doctoral program of the Department of Comparative Literature at the CUNY Graduate Center. Born in Riga, Latvia, Peterson received her undergraduate degree at the University of Moscow, Russia, and her Ph.D. from Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. She writes about contemporary Russian prose, women’s literature, and Russian education. Peterson is a published translator and the author of a Russian language textbook and Subversive Imaginations: Fantastic Prose and the End of Soviet Literature, 1970s-1990s as well as several articles on various aspects of Russian studies.

Contents: Liudmila Ulitskaya: Happy – Boris Khazanov: Earth Mother – Dina Rubina: Liubka – Vladimir Makanin: The Brother’s Keeper – Galina Shcherbakova: The Three «Loves» of Masha Peredreeva – Evgeny Kharitonov: Teardrops on the Flowers – Yury Mamleev: An Individualist’s Notebook – Nina Sadur: The Dead Hour – Victor Pelevin: Mid-Game – Galina Shcherbakova: Prime Passed – Evgeny Shklovsky: Babel in Paris – Elena Muliarova: Two Days in the Life of Zhenia D.

«This delightful collection of contemporary fiction offers a unique point of view on love and lust in Russian culture. A must-read for anybody interested in all things Russian!» (Ilya Vinitsky, University of Pennsylvania)