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Book SynopsisBetween Dog and Wolf, written in 1980, has long intimidated translators because of its complex puns, rhymes, and neologisms. Language rather than plot motivates the story-the novel is often compared to James Joyce's Finnegans Wake-and time, characters, and death all prove unstable. The one constant is the Russian landscape.
Trade ReviewA masterful feat. Boguslawski has created a discourse, or literary style, that captures Sokolov's at once folksy and fanciful, verbally playful, punning speech and is remarkably faithful to the subtleties of Sokolov's language. -- Olga Matich, University of California, Berkeley Sasha Sokolov's Between Dog and Wolf, delivered in Alexander Boguslawski's masterful translation, comprises a daring act of immersion into the depths of language that results in semantic spasms of the great Russian literary body. The highly experimental novel, which unquestionably belongs to the highest literary ranks, announces the twilight of the novelistic tradition, but already eagerly awaits its imminent dawn. -- Nariman Skakov, Stanford University Sokolov is one of those rare novelists whose primary concern is the praise and exploration of a language rather than the development of a position. In this, he is in the line of Gogol, Lermontov, Nabokov. -- David Remnick, Washington Post One of the great living Russian writers. Flavorwire Intricate and rewarding-a Russian Finnegans Wake. Vanity Fair One feels the caliber and creativity of the original. This is a riot of language, invaluable for scholars and fascinating to the curious. Publishers Weekly A bold, lyrical English version of this challenging work, where plot, character and chronology dissolve in the flood of Sokolov's rich prose and poetry, evoking an-often frozen-landscape. -- Phoebe Taplin Russia Beyond the Headlines
Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Discords Beyond the Itil 2. The Trapper's Tale 3. Notes of a Binging Hunter 4. Dzyndzyrela's Discords Beyond the Itil 5. The Trapper's Tale or Pictures from an Exhibition 6. Accordin to Ilya Petrikeich 7. Notes of a Hunter 8. Discords Beyond the Itil 9. Pictures from an Exhibition 10. Dzynzyrella's 11. Again the Notes 12. Discords Beyond the Itil 13. Pictures from an Exhibition 14. Accordin to Ilya Petrikeich 15. The Binger's Journal 16. The Trapper's Tale 17. The Last Remarks 18. The Note, Sent in a Separate Bottle Annotations
