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“victor beilis”

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  • Death of a Prototype

    The Portrait

    by Victor Beilis ...
    Translated by Leo Shtutin ...
    “Death of a Prototype” is the first work by Victor Beilis to make it into English since the single-volume publication in 2002 of a duo of novellas—“The Rehabilitation of Freud & Bakhtin and Others”( translated by Richard Grose). Much like the novellas that preceded it, “Death of a Prototype” is a hyper-allusive and self-consciously ‘difficult’ work: Beilis delights in intertextual play, inviting ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Death of a Prototype

    The Portrait

    by Victor Beilis ...
    Translated by Leo Shtutin ...
    “Death of a Prototype” is the first work by Victor Beilis to make it into English since the single-volume publication in 2002 of a duo of novellas—“The Rehabilitation of Freud & Bakhtin and Others”( translated by Richard Grose). Much like the novellas that preceded it, “Death of a Prototype” is a hyper-allusive and self-consciously ‘difficult’ work: Beilis delights in intertextual play, inviting ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Death of a Prototype

    The Portrait

    by Victor Beilis ...
    Translated by Leo Shtutin ...
    This is the first work by Victor Beilis to make it into English since the single-volume publication in 2002 of a duo of novellas—“The Rehabilitation of Freud & Bakhtin and Others”(translated by Richard Grose). Much like the novellas that preceded it, “Death of a Prototype” is a hyper-allusive and self-consciously difficult work. Beilis engages closely with an entire spectrum of Russian and ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Notes from Underground

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    by Alexander Pushkin ...
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  • The Confusions of Young Törless

    by Robert Musil, Ritchie Robertson ...
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