A Journey into Russia: Armchair Traveller
Autor Jens Mühling Traducere de Eugene H. Hayworthen Limba Engleză Paperback – 28 mar 2017
When
German
journalist
Jens
Mühling
met
Juri,
a
Russian
television
producer
selling
stories
about
his
homeland,
he
was
mesmerized
by
what
he
heard:
the
real
Russia
and
Ukraine
were
more
unbelievable
than
anything
he
could
have
invented.
The
encounter
changed
Mühling’s
life,
triggering
a
number
of
journeys
to
Ukraine
and
deep
into
the
Russian
heartland
on
a
quest
for
stories
of
ordinary
and
extraordinary
people.
Away
from
the
bright
lights
of
Moscow,
Mühling
met
and
befriended
a
Dostoevskian
cast
of
characters,
including
a
hermit
from
Tayga
who
had
only
recently
discovered
the
existence
of
a
world
beyond
the
woods,
a
Ukrainian
Cossack
who
defaced
the
statue
of
Lenin
in
central
Kiev,
and
a
priest
who
insisted
on
returning
to
Chernobyl
to
preach
to
the
stubborn
few
determined
to
remain
in
the
exclusion
zone.
Unveiling a portion of the world whose contradictions, attractions, and absurdities are still largely unknown to people outside its borders, A Journey into Russia is a much-needed glimpse into one of today’s most significant regions.
Unveiling a portion of the world whose contradictions, attractions, and absurdities are still largely unknown to people outside its borders, A Journey into Russia is a much-needed glimpse into one of today’s most significant regions.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781909961128
ISBN-10: 1909961124
Pagini: 342
Dimensiuni: 127 x 203 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.42 kg
Editura: HAUS PUBLISHING
Colecția Haus Publishing
Seria Armchair Traveller
ISBN-10: 1909961124
Pagini: 342
Dimensiuni: 127 x 203 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.42 kg
Editura: HAUS PUBLISHING
Colecția Haus Publishing
Seria Armchair Traveller
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Notă biografică
Jens Mühling was an editor at a German newspaper in Moscow for two years. Since 2005, he has worked as an award-winning reporter for the Berlin newspaper Der Tagesspiegel. Eugene H. Hayworth is the translator of several contemporary German novels.
Cuprins
ICE (KIEV)
The Puzzle
Russia is not a Country
Lenin’s Nose
The Saviour of Chernobyl
BLOOD (MOSCOW)
We Fight, We Reconcile
A Short History of the World
A Kettle of Water Minus the Kettle
The Trail of the Icons
Yevgeny of Chechnya
The Return of the Wooden Gods
WIND (SAINT PETERSBURG)
Peter the Seasick
The Last Heir to the Throne
A Would-Be Saint
24 Centimetres
Beetles and Communists
WATER (SIBERIA)
Trans-Siberian Chocolate
Do Bees Have a Five-Year Plan?
The Messiah of the Mosquitoes
You Shall Know Them by Their Beards
Where to, Arkashka?
Blood and Vodka
GRASS (THE STEPPES)
Wood People and Grass People
The Morgue of Yekaterinburg
The Cossacks’ Last Battle
A Trunk Full of Icons
WOOD (TAIGA)
Misha and Masha
The Secrets of Russian Women
The Long Walk to Paradise
Recenzii
“[Mühling]
meets
a
bewildering
variety
of
‘old
believers’
in
a
broader
sense,
from
members
of
the
sectarian
Orthodox
Church
.
.
.,
through
stubbornly
Leninist
former
Soviet
citizens,
to
newly
minted
Slavonic
pagans.
They
all
want
to
tell
Mühling
their
life
stories
which,
in
his
empathetic
retelling,
provide
glimpses
into
other
lives
that
are
vivid
and
frequently
moving.”
“Jens Mühling is a brave man. . . . The spine of his narrative remains the quest for Agafya, for a woman whose ancestors, at each of ‘the crucial crossroads of Russian history’, had refused to follow the herd. . . . It won’t spoil the story to say that he and she (then 69) do finally meet, an encounter that Mühling describes movingly and elegantly. It’s a tribute to the translator, Eugene H Hayworth, that this never reads like a book that was first written in German.”
“A brilliant account of the Russian frame of mind.”
“[A] rich, eclectic travelogue.”
Descriere
When German journalist Jens Mühling met Juri, a Russian television producer selling stories about his homeland, he was mesmerized by what he heard: the real Russia and Ukraine were more unbelievable than anything he could have invented. The encounter changed Mühling’s life, triggering a number of journeys to Ukraine and deep into the Russian heartland on a quest for stories of ordinary and extraordinary people. Away from the bright lights of Moscow, Mühling met and befriended a Dostoevskian cast of characters, including a hermit from Tayga who had only recently discovered the existence of a world beyond the woods, a Ukrainian Cossack who defaced the statue of Lenin in central Kiev, and a priest who insisted on returning to Chernobyl to preach to the stubborn few determined to remain in the exclusion zone.
Unveiling a portion of the world whose contradictions, attractions, and absurdities are still largely unknown to people outside its borders, A Journey into Russia is a much-needed glimpse into one of today’s most significant regions.
Unveiling a portion of the world whose contradictions, attractions, and absurdities are still largely unknown to people outside its borders, A Journey into Russia is a much-needed glimpse into one of today’s most significant regions.