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Ithaca and London,, 2021. First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket.. Fine in fine dust jacket.. 8vo. pp xiii, 254. Colour illustrated dust jacket. Original publisher's blue paper covered boards, lettered yellow at spine.ISBN: 9781501759901

Northern Illinois University Press, 2021. New Book. Hardcover. 270 pp. All Future Plunges to the Past explores how Russian writers from the mid-1920s on have read and responded to Joyce's work. Through contextually rich close readings, José Vergara uncovers the many roles Joyce has occupied in Russia over the last century, demonstrating how the writers Yury Olesha, Vladimir Nabokov, Andrei Bitov, Sasha Sokolov, and Mikhail Shishkin draw from Joyce's texts, particularly Ulysses and Finnegans Wake, to address the volatile questions of lineages in their respective Soviet, émigré, and post-Soviet contexts. Interviews with contemporary Russian writers, critics, and readers of Joyce extend the conversation to the present day, showing how the debates regarding the Irish writer's place in the Russian pantheon are no less settled one hundred years after Ulysses. The creative reworkings, or translations, of Joycean themes, ideas, characters, plots, and styles made by the five writers Vergara examines… Read More

Cornell University Press, 2021. 1. Hardcover. New/New.

Hardback. New. All Future Plunges to the Past explores how Russian writers from the mid-1920s on have read and responded to Joyce's work. Through contextually rich close readings, Jose Vergara uncovers the many roles Joyce has occupied in Russia over the last century, demonstrating how the writers Yury Olesha, Vladimir Nabokov, Andrei Bitov, Sasha Sokolov, and Mikhail Shishkin draw from Joyce's texts, particularly Ulysses and Finnegans Wake, to address the volatile questions of lineages in their respective Soviet, emigre, and post-Soviet contexts. Interviews with contemporary Russian writers, critics, and readers of Joyce extend the conversation to the present day, showing how the debates regarding the Irish writer's place in the Russian pantheon are no less settled 100 years after Ulysses. The creative reworkings, or "translations," of Joycean themes, ideas, characters, plots, and styles made by the five writers Vergara examines speak to shifting cultural norms,… Read More

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Hardcover. New. Brand New.

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Northern Illinois Univ Pr, 2021. Hardcover. New. 276 pages. 9.00x6.00x1.25 inches.

Northern Illinois Univ Pr, 2021. Hardcover. New. 276 pages. 9.00x6.00x1.25 inches.

Northern Illinois University Press. New. Special order direct from the distributor