George Saunders

I "Befrielsedagen" fortsätter novellmästaren George Saunders att utmana och överraska läsaren med sin lekfulla dekonstruktion av värderingar, språk och genre. Det handlar om historieberättande och ansvar, om mod och medmänsklighet, och om det utsiktslösa men ändå nödvändiga motståndet mot makten. När verkligheten alltmer närmar sig dystopin lämnar Saunders berättelser ett djupare avtryck än någonsin." Språkligt och berättartekniskt är Saunders en fröjd att läsa, och Niclas Nilssons översättning magnifik - ordval, stilnivå, allt sitter. Sammantaget går det inte att kalla Befrielsedagen för något annat än en av årets bästa, mest angelägna böcker." Sydsvenskan"Jag bönfaller er att läsa George Saunders. Han är en av världens skickligaste författare och jag försäkrar er - hans ord älskar er läsning." Norrbottens-Kuriren”Saunders skriver så det både svänger och viner om texten … Det hela är gripande utan att vara sentimentalt eller övertydligt, men också en mörbultande skräckfärd. Saunders cyniska och absurda versioner av framtiden känns trots allt som att de kryper allt närmare.” Sveriges Radio"Herregud, så bra han är, Saunders! Äntligen en bok som är angelägen! Och skriven på ett språk som etsar sig in hos läsaren." Västerbottens-Kuriren

Äidit tekevät henkilökohtaista tilintekoa keskellä raemyrskyä. Yhteiskunnan hylkiöitä aivopestään ja uudelleenohjelmoidaan käytettäviksi poliittisissa mielenosoituksissa. Helvetti-teemaisen maanalaisen huvipuiston työntekijä alkaa kyseenalaistaa todellisuutta, jossa elää. Vapautuksen päivä on kokoelma särmikkäitä tarinoita, jotka sisältävät iloa ja epätoivoa, sortoa ja vallankumousta, outoa fantasiaa ja julmaa todellisuutta. Tavaramerkkiproosallaan - ilkeänhauskalla, epäsentimentaalisella ja hienoksi viritetyllä - Saunders tutkii ajatuksia vallasta, etiikasta ja oikeudenmukaisuudesta sekä käsittelee yhteisössä elämisen ydintä. Tarinat kuvaavat vinksahtaneesta ja surrealistisestakin näkökulmasta amerikkalaista jälkidemokraattista yhteiskuntaa, jossa ihmiset odottavat loppua, järjestelmänlopullista kaatumista. Mutta mitä jos loppua ei tule? Kokoelman novelleja on julkaistu New Yorker -lehdessä vuosina 2013- 2022. Lisäksi mukana on neljä uutta tarinaa.

Ot bukerovskogo laureata Dzhordzha Sondersa, avtora "Linkoln v Bardo" i "Desjatoe dekabrja". Sekrety literatury legko raskryt - dostatochno lish perevernut stranitsu. Chekhov. Turgenev. Tolstoj. Gogol. Sem rasskazov izvestnykh russkikh pisatelej - sem esse, kotorye Dzhordzh Sonders sozdal na osnove kursa, kotoryj vot uzhe mnogo let on chitaet v Sirakjusskom universitete." Kogda chitaesh etikh avtorov, oni tebja menjajut, a mir vokrug slovno by nachinaet izlagat druguju, gorazdo bolee interesnuju, istoriju - istoriju, v kakoj mozhno sygrat znachimuju rol i gde na chitatelja vozlozhena otvetstvennost", - pishet vo vstuplenii sam Sonders. Ved izuchat literaturu - eto izuchat samu zhizn." Oda kazhdomu pisatelju i chitatelju". - O, The Oprah Magazine"Eta kniga osobenno velikolepna tem, chto eto ne ocherednoj "khau-tu" ili kriticheskoe esse. Eto nastojaschee pogruzhenie v istoriju, Sonders naschupal idealnyj balans mezhdu pisatelskim preparirovaniem i chitatelskoj zavorozhennostju". - The Guardian"Slava velikogo russkogo romana ogromna; velikomu russkomu rasskazu povezlo menshe. Amerikanskij pisatel i prepodavatel Dzhordzh Sonders probuet ispravit etu nespravedlivost - i pokazyvaet, kak po-novomu vzgljanut na korotkie veschi Chekhova, Turgeneva, Tolstogo i Gogolja. V ego ostroumnykh i pedantichnykh razborakh razlichaesh zhar fanata i kholod issledovatelja - sochetanie, kotoroe prisusche kazhdomu khoroshemu chitatelju i sochinitelju khudozhestvennoj prozy. Sobstvenno, buduschim avtoram eta kniga vo mnogom i prednaznachena: "Kupanie v prudu pod dozhdem" - odno iz luchshikh posobij po literaturnomu masterstvu, kniga s toj zhe polki, chto i nabokovskie "Lektsii po literature" ili filologicheskie esse Kutzee". - Igor Kirienkov, knizhnyj kritik, avtor "Polki"Perevodchik: Martynova Shashi

"Kümnes detsember" on üks kaasaja hinnatumaid novellikogusid. Nende tugevalt nihkes lugude seas kohtume muuhulgas sõjast naasnud mehega, kes peab uuesti õppima elama koos emaga; vangivalvuriga, kes katsetab kinnipeetavate peal kahtlast ravimit; probleemse kutsikamüüjaga ning jõukate peredega, kes kaunistavad üksteise võidu oma aedu kolmandast maailmast sisse toodud naistega. George Saunders (snd 1958) on sündinud Texases ja õppinud ülikoolis geofüüsikat. Kui Saunders käis Sumatral naftat otsimas, siis loopis ta puuraukudesse dünamiiti ning sai troopilise haiguse ahvisitaga reostatud jões ujumisest. Saunders avaldas oma esimese jutukogu 37-aastaselt ning praeguseks peetakse teda üheks kõige huvitavamaks USA autoriks. Tema põhiline zhanr on novellid ning lühijutud, kuid 2017 pälvis ta Bookeri preemia romaaniga "Lincoln kaalukojas" (e.k. 2019).

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "One of our most inventive purveyors of the form returns with pitch-perfect, genre-bending stories that stare into the abyss of our national character. . . . An exquisite work from a writer whose reach is galactic."--Oprah Daily Booker Prize winner George Saunders returns with his first collection of short stories since the New York Times bestseller Tenth of December. ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, Oprah Daily, NPR, Time, USA Today, The Guardian, Esquire, Newsweek, Kirkus Reviews, Booklist, Library Journal The "best short-story writer in English" (Time) is back with a masterful collection that explores ideas of power, ethics, and justice and cuts to the very heart of what it means to live in community with our fellow humans. With his trademark prose--wickedly funny, unsentimental, and exquisitely tuned--Saunders continues to challenge and surprise: Here is a collection of prismatic, resonant stories that encompass joy and despair, oppression and revolution, bizarre fantasy and brutal reality. "Love Letter" is a tender missive from grandfather to grandson, in the midst of a dystopian political situation in the (not too distant, all too believable) future, that reminds us of our obligations to our ideals, ourselves, and one another. "Ghoul" is set in a Hell-themed section of an underground amusement park in Colorado and follows the exploits of a lonely, morally complex character named Brian, who comes to question everything he takes for granted about his reality. In "Mother's Day," two women who loved the same man come to an existential reckoning in the middle of a hailstorm. In "Elliott Spencer," our eighty-nine-year-old protagonist finds himself brainwashed, his memory "scraped"--a victim of a scheme in which poor, vulnerable people are reprogrammed and deployed as political protesters. And "My House"--in a mere seven pages--comes to terms with the haunting nature of unfulfilled dreams and the inevitability of decay. Together, these nine subversive, profound, and essential stories coalesce into a case for viewing the world with the same generosity and clear-eyed attention Saunders does, even in the most absurd of circumstances.

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERPICKED BY THE SUNDAY TIMES, GUARDIAN, INDEPENDENT, IRISH TIMES, SPECTATOR, TLS, NEW STATESMAN, MAIL ON SUNDAY, I PAPER, PROSPECT, REVEW31 AND EVENING STANDARD AS A BOOK OF 2021'A masterclass from a warm and engagingly enthusiastic companion' Guardian Summer Reading Picks 2021‘This book is a delight, and it’s about delight too. How necessary, at our particular moment’ Tessa Hadley________________From the New York Times-bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo and Tenth of December comes a literary master class on what makes great stories work and what they can tell us about ourselves - and our world today. For the last twenty years, George Saunders has been teaching a class on the Russian short story to his MFA students at Syracuse University. In A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, he shares a version of that class with us, offering some of what he and his students have discovered together over the years. Paired with iconic short stories by Chekhov, Turgenev, Tolstoy, and Gogol, the seven essays in this book are intended for anyone interested in how fiction works and why it’s more relevant than ever in these turbulent times. In his introduction, Saunders writes, “We’re going to enter seven fastidiously constructed scale models of the world, made for a specific purpose that our time maybe doesn’t fully endorse but that these writers accepted implicitly as the aim of art—namely, to ask the big questions, questions like, How are we supposed to be living down here? What were we put here to accomplish? What should we value? What is truth, anyway, and how might we recognize it?” He approaches the stories technically yet accessibly, and through them explains how narrative functions; why we stay immersed in a story and why we resist it; and the bedrock virtues a writer must foster. The process of writing, Saunders reminds us, is a technical craft, but also a way of training oneself to see the world with new openness and curiosity. A Swim in a Pond in the Rain is a deep exploration not just of how great writing works but of how the mind itself works while reading, and of how the reading and writing of stories make genuine connection possible.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From the Booker Prize-winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo and Tenth of December comes a literary master class on what makes great stories work and what they can tell us about ourselves--and our world today. LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/DIAMONSTEIN-SPIELVOGEL AWARD - ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post, NPR, Time, San Francisco Chronicle, Esquire, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Town & Country, The Rumpus, Electric Lit, Thrillist, BookPage - " A] worship song to writers and readers."--Oprah Daily For the last twenty years, George Saunders has been teaching a class on the Russian short story to his MFA students at Syracuse University. In A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, he shares a version of that class with us, offering some of what he and his students have discovered together over the years. Paired with iconic short stories by Chekhov, Turgenev, Tolstoy, and Gogol, the seven essays in this book are intended for anyone interested in how fiction works and why it's more relevant than ever in these turbulent times. In his introduction, Saunders writes, "We're going to enter seven fastidiously constructed scale models of the world, made for a specific purpose that our time maybe doesn't fully endorse but that these writers accepted implicitly as the aim of art--namely, to ask the big questions, questions like, How are we supposed to be living down here? What were we put here to accomplish? What should we value? What is truth, anyway, and how might we recognize it?" He approaches the stories technically yet accessibly, and through them explains how narrative functions; why we stay immersed in a story and why we resist it; and the bedrock virtues a writer must foster. The process of writing, Saunders reminds us, is a technical craft, but also a way of training oneself to see the world with new openness and curiosity. A Swim in a Pond in the Rain is a deep exploration not just of how great writing works but of how the mind itself works while reading, and of how the reading and writing of stories make genuine connection possible.

’Saunders is funny and kind as ever, and his narrative virtuosity puts him up there with the best’ Anne Enright, Guardian ’A triumph of storytelling’ i paper’A joy. ’Effortlessly stylish, funny and smart’ Daily Mail____________The first short story collection in ten years from the Man Booker Prize-winning, New York Times-bestselling author of Lincoln in the BardoMacArthur genius and Booker Prize-winner George Saunders returns with a collection of short stories that make sense of our increasingly troubled world, his first since the New York Times bestseller and National Book Award finalist Tenth of DecemberThe ’best short story writer in English’ (Time) is back with a masterful collection that explores ideas of power, ethics, and justice, and cuts to the very heart of what it means to live in community with our fellow humans. With his trademark prose - wickedly funny, unsentimental, and perfectly tuned - Saunders continues to challenge and surprise: here is a collection of prismatic, deeply resonant stories that encompass joy and despair, oppression and revolution, bizarre fantasy and brutal reality. ’Love Letter’ is a tender missive from grandfather to grandson, in the midst of a dystopian political situation in the not-too-distant future, that reminds us of our obligations to our ideals, ourselves, and each other. ’Ghoul’ is set in a Hell-themed section of an underground amusement park in Colorado, and follows the exploits of a lonely, morally complex character named Brian, who comes to question everything he takes for granted about his ’reality.’ In ’Mother’s Day’, two women who loved the same man come to an existential reckoning in the middle of a hailstorm. And in ’Elliott Spencer’, our eighty-nine-year-old protagonist finds himself brainwashed - his memory ’scraped’ - a victim of a scheme in which poor, vulnerable people are reprogrammed and deployed as political protesters. Together, these nine subversive, profound, and essential stories coalesce into a case for viewing the world with the same generosity and clear-eyed attention as Saunders does, even in the most absurd of circumstances. ____________’The only way to experience Saunders’s oblique, farcical, tragic world is to dive right in. It will take the top of your head off, but it’s worth it’ The Times’The world’s best short story writer ... Liberation Day is great art’ Daily Telegraph

Odna iz luchshikh knig mirovoj literatury, kotoruju s udovolstviem chitajut i vzroslye i deti. Posle korablekrushenija Lemjuel Gulliver okazyvaetsja v udivitelnoj Liliputii. Krokhotnye zhiteli etoj strany ochen rady gostju i izo vsekh sil stremjatsja ugodit Cheloveku-Gore. Ochen skoro stanovitsja jasno, chto liliputy ne tak dobrodushny, i uplyt ot nikh sovsem ne prosto. Vprochem, v drugoj strane, velikanov, kuda Gullivera zanosit zhazhda puteshestvij, geroja zhdut ispytanija na lovkost, smelost i blagorodstvo. Znamenityj roman anglijskogo klassika, proilljustrirovannyj Libiko Marajja objazatelno zajmet svoe mesto na polochke s ljubimymi knigami detstva. Perevodchik Irina Krupicheva

1862 god, razgar Grazhdanskoj vojny v SSHA. No mysli prezidenta Linkolna - s ego odinnadtsatiletnim tjazhelobolnym synom Uilli. Nesmotrja na optimistichnye prognozy, malchik umiraet. V buddizme bardo - pogranichnoe sostojanie mezhdu zhiznju i smertju. Tak, Uilli popadaet v sjurrealistichnyj limb, gde rojatsja i shepchut beskonechnye prizraki, i malchik okazyvaetsja zakhvachen proiskhodjaschem v mezhdumire. Vzjav za osnovu realnye istoricheskie fakty, Dzhordzh Sonders sozdal poistine genialnyj roman, tragichnyj, mnogozhanrovyj; roman o seme, vechnosti, ispolnennyj vazhnykh voprosov o zhizni, smerti i realnosti. Perevodchik: Krylov G. A.

George Saunders räknas idag som en av de främsta amerikanska novellisterna. I ”Pastoralia och andra noveller” har ett urval gjorts i samråd med författaren och visar på bredden och utvecklingen innan kritikerrosade romanen ”Lincoln i bardo”. Novellerna speglar ofta en utflippad men igenkännbar samtid och kan beskrivas som ett sprakande fyrverkeri av genialitet, gnistrande fantasi och svart satir.

Fox 8 has always been curious, and a bit of a daydreamer. And, by hiding outside houses at dusk and listening to children's bedtime stories, he has learned to speak 'Yuman'. The power of words and the stories built from them is intoxicating for a fox with a poetic soul, but there is 'danjur' on the horizon: a new shopping mall is being built, cutting off his pack's food supply. To save himself and his fellow foxes, Fox 8 will have to set out on a harrowing quest from the wilds of nature deep into the dark heart of suburbia.

Fox 8 has always been known as the daydreamer in his pack, the one his fellow foxes regard with a knowing snort and a roll of the eyes. That is, until he develops a unique skill: He teaches himself to speak "Yuman" by hiding in the bushes outside a house and listening to children's bedtime stories. The power of language fuels his abundant curiosity about people-even after "danjer" arrives in the form of a new shopping mall that cuts off his food supply, sending Fox 8 on a harrowing quest to help save his pack. Told with his distinctive blend of humor and pathos, Fox 8showcases the extraordinary imaginative talents of George Saunders, whom The New York Times called "the writer for our time."