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Biographical note
Polina Barskova, born in Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg) in 1976, is one of the most celebrated contemporary Russian writers. She currently teaches at the University of California, Berkeley. In addition to her extensive poetic oeuvre, she is a literary scholar and editor dedicated to the poets of the Leningrad blockade. Living Pictures is her first volume of prose. Catherine Ciepiela is professor of Russian at Amherst College, and a translator of Russian literature. She is the author of The Same Solitude, a nonfiction work about the epistolary romance between Marina Tsvetaeva and Boris Pasternak. Eugene Ostashevsky is a professor, poet and translator. he is the author of The Feeling Sonnets and The Pirate Who Does Not Know the Value of Pi and the translator of Lucky Breaks by Yevgenia Belorusets, also available from Pushkin Press.A precise, tremendous and beautiful book
- Maria Stepanova, author of In Memory of Memory,
Highly poetic... Polina Barskova's prose elegantly combines all genres into a new narrative form
WDR 3
Enchanting experimentation with prose
Die Welt
A genre-bending story featuring memoir, art criticism, and the story of two lovers stuck in the Hermitage during the blockade... fuses archival material with experimental prose
The Calvert Journal
Via the imaginative whirlwind of her gorgeous prose we enter the underworld of history's many rooms. Our guide and our balm, despite all the tragedy, is the author's talent. For everything she touches turns to music. This is a beautiful, inconsolable, deeply resonant book
- Ilya Kaminsky, author of Deaf Republic,
[A] multi-faceted work that blends archival evidence, memoir and fiction to both bear witness to those who survived the siege, and commemorate those whose lives it cost them... the beauty of her work lies in the lyricism and limpidity of her writing
- Lucy Scholes, Telegraph
Living Pictures aims at breathing life - and complexity - into the deathly monolith of Soviet memory... subversive
Spectator