Alla Gorbunova

From a rising star of Russian literature, a collection of short stories that straddles the line between delight and horror. Twisting the art of the fairytale into something entirely her own, Alla Gorbunova's (Th)ings and (Th)oughts is an endlessly inventive collection thematically-linked short prose. Divided by subject--romance, philosophy, fate--the stories in this collection turn a magical lens to bitter realities.

"Chudo kak predchuvstvie" - sbornik rasskazov i esse sovremennykh avtorov. Evgenij Vodolazkin, Tatjana Tolstaja, Aleksej Salnikov, Marina Stepnova, Aleksandr Tsypkin, Grigorij Sluzhitel, Majja Kucherskaja, Pavel Basinskij, Alla Gorbunova, Denis Dragunskij, Elena Kolina, Shamil Idiatullin, Anna Matveeva, Veniamin Smekhov i Valerij Popov pishut o chudesakh, povsednevnykh i rozhdestvenskikh, prostykh i neverojatnykh, nemyslimykh, no svershivshikhsja. Oschuschenie predstojaschego prazdnika, tepla, ujuta i sveta - kak v detstve, kogda my vse verili v chudo. Illjustratsii Sashi Nikolaenko. Avtor idei Anna Popova. Redaktor-sostavitel Veronika Dmitrieva. Kniga izdana pri podderzhke kompanii "En+".

Nikogda esche 1990-e i 2000-e gody ne byli opisany s takoj dostovernostju, kak v novoj knige Ally Gorbunovoj. Deti, studenty, nischie, molodye poety - ee geroi i geroini prozhivajut zhizn intensivno, balansiruja mezhdu toskoj i ejforiej, svjatostju i padeniem, puskajas iz ognja semejnogo bezumija v polymja riskovannoj neformalnoj zhizni Sankt-Peterburga. No rasskazy Gorbunovoj daleki ot bytopisatelstva: ona smotrit na khrupkuju i opasnuju realnost s beskompromissnoj nezhnostju, razlichaja v nej opyt, kotoryj sposoben preobrazit ee geroev. Alla Gorbunova - poet, prozaik, kritik, laureat premii "Debjut" (2005) i Premii Andreja Belogo (2019). Redaktor: Larionov D.

Alla Gorbunova är en prisbelönt författare och poet. Detta är hennes första prosabok. Alla Gorbunova rodilas v 1985 godu v Leningrade. Okonchila filosofskij fakultet SPbGU. Poet, avtor neskolkikh knig prozy - "Konets sveta, moja ljubov", "Drugaja materija", "Leto". Ejo stikhi i proza perevedeny na mnogie inostrannye jazyki. Laureat premij "NOS", "Debjut" i premii Andreja Belogo." Veschi i uschi" byli moej pervoj knigoj prozy. Ja nadejus, chto v nej est drajv i est sostradanie. Vnachale ja sobiralas nazvat ejo "Skazki dlja choknutykh", potom - "Dotla", i uzhe tretij variant stal okonchatelnym - "Veschi i uschi". No "Skazki dlja choknutykh" - eto bezuslovno ejo vazhnaja ipostas i oboznachenie tselevoj auditorii, a "Dotla" - eto iz moego rasskaza pro cheloveka, kotoryj khodil v chjornykh ochkakh zimoj, potomu chto ne khotel videt mir dotla - smotret na nego i ispepeljat samim aktom svoego videnija. Vot pro takie dva tajnykh plasta, dva sekretnykh nazvanija "Veschej i uschej" ja vam rasskazala, a chto za veschi, chto za uschi - razbirajtes sami". Alla Gorbunova

Otherworldly forces, dark phantasmagoria, the horrors of underground life, adolescence and rebellion, myth and fairy tale all swirl in Alla Gorbunova's audacious and spectacular novel. Children, students, beggars, young poets: Alla Gorbunova's heroes and heroines live their lives intensely, experiencing the longing, joy, anticipation, and heartbreak of youth in 1990s Saint Petersburg. But Gorbunova's interconnected episodes don't limit themselves to the realm of the everyday, as they move from harsh, material realities to delirious dark fantasies. Characters escape, decline, self-destruct, and transform. In vivid prose she conjures a fragile and haunted society, and renders it with frank and uncompromising tenderness. A stunning work of fiction, It's the End of the World, My Love is a compassionate, terrifying, and rewarding book from an undeniable literary voice.

In This Is Us Losing Count, eight contemporary Russian poets obliterate old conventions in their efforts to reckon with the past. A woman surveys a changing city from her self-described "cloud tower," recalling where building used to stand. A grandmother spends her hallucinatory final days convening with deceased friends and relatives visible only to her, including a small boy perched on top of the refrigerator. A voracious eater picks through memories in the form of breads, dumplings, sweets, and other snacks that never quite sate her, declaring "I write because I can't eat enough." In sinuous translations of verse both irreverent and profound, this fifth installment of Two Lines Press's Calico Series ask to what extent we must remember in order to reinvent.

Alla Gorbunova rodilas v 1985 godu v Leningrade. Okonchila filosofskij fakultet SPbGU. Poet, avtor dvukh knig prozy — "Veschi i uschi" i "Konets sveta, moja ljubov". Ejo stikhi i proza perevedeny na mnogie inostrannye jazyki. Laureat premij "NOS", "Debjut" i premii Andreja Belogo. Proza Ally Gorbunovoj predelno podlinna i privlekaet samykh raznykh chitatelej, ot izvestnykh literaturnykh kritikov, ljudej iskusstva i filosofov do studentov i starsheklassnikov. Eta kniga — ne iskljuchenie. Smeshnye, grustnye, trogatelnye, a podchas i strashnye, no udivitelno zhivye istorii pronizany svetom ejo dushi, svetom "drugoj materii"." Nebolshie, no glubokie liricheskie zarisovki — srodni i srednevekovym exempla, i dzujkhitsu, i zhanru anekdota, v kotorom vsjo tak, da ne tak. Mnogie iz nikh paradoksalny, kak i sama geroinja, — v chjom-to daljokaja ot obydennoj zhizni, ona nakhoditsja v samoj ejo gusche. I, kak sama priznajotsja, bolee poloviny ejo dushi zanimaet ad trevogi i uzhasa, no ostalnoe — v pervozdannom raju, gde zlo nevozmozhno". (Ksenija Buksha)

Alla Gorbunova rodilas v 1985 godu v Leningrade. Okonchila filosofskij fakultet SPbGU. Avtor knig stikhov "Pervaja ljubov, mat Ada" (2008), "Kolodeznoe vino" (2010) i "Alpijskaja fortochka" (2012). Laureat premii "Debjut" v nominatsii "poezija" (2005), short-list Premii Andreja Belogo s knigoj "Kolodeznoe vino" (2011). Stikhi perevodilis na nemetskij, italjanskij, anglijskij, shvedskij, latyshskij, datskij, serbskij, frantsuzskij i finskij jazyki. Proza pechatalas v zhurnalakh "Novyj mir"i "Novye oblaka", retsenzii i esse - v "Novom mire" i "Novom literaturnom obozrenii". Zhivet v Moskve.