A present past: titan and other chronicles / Sergei Lebedev ; translated by Antonina W. Bouis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lebedev, Sergeĭ, 1981- author.

Contributor:

Bouis, Antonina W., translator.

Standardized Title:

Titan. English

Титан. English

Language:

English

Russian

Subjects (All):

Totalitarianism--Fiction.

Totalitarianism.

Truth--Fiction.

Truth.

Russia--Fiction.

Russia.

Genre:

Short stories.

Ghost stories.

Physical Description:

viii, 277 pages ; 21 cm

Other Title:

Titan and other chronicles

Place of Publication:

New York : New Vessel Press, 2023.

Language Note:

Text in English ; translated from the Russian.

Summary:

"The Soviet and post-Soviet world, with its untold multitude of crimes, is a natural breeding ground for ghost stories. No one writes them more movingly than Russian author Sergei Lebedev, who in this stunning volume probes a collective guilty conscience marked by otherworldliness and the denial of misdeeds. These eleven tales share a mystical topography in which the legacy of totalitarian regimes is ever-present--from Katyn to Chechnya, from Lithuanian KGB documents to the streetscape of unified Berlin, from the fragments of family history to the echoes of foot soldiers in Russia's wars of aggression. In these stories, as in Lebedev's acclaimed novels, the voices of things, places, animals, and people seek justice for a restless past, where steel claws scrape just beneath the surface and where the heredity of evil is uninterrupted, unacknowledged, unnamed."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Judge Stomakov

St. Anthony's fire

The Obelisk

Barmas below

The barn

The letter Й

The night is bright tonight

Titan

Whoooo

19D

The singer on the bridge.

Notes:

"First published in Russian in 2022 as Титан [Titan]."--Title page verso.

ISBN:

1954404182

9781954404182

OCLC:

1355642411

Publisher Number:

99993808321