“Peering into the abyss, Nina Sadur leads us into the darkness of the human spirit as the Russian literature of Gogol and Dostoevsky has so often done, connecting with her reader both universally and viscerally. Now for the first time, Nadya L. Peterson provides the English speaking reader and audience access to a series of this remarkable author’s plays.”
... Read moreThomas R. Beyer, C.V. Starr Professor of Russian and East European Studies, Middlebury College “Finally English-language readers can become familiar with the disquieting, mysterious, yet disturbingly physical world of Nina Sadur, surely one of the major Russian writers to have emerged since the 1970's. Her prose works and plays are almost literally ‘spellbinding.’”
Elizabeth K. Beaujour, Professor of Russian and Comparative Literature, Hunter College and the CUNY Graduate Center “Sadur’s plays are discomforting; they uproot certainties, allowing deep and ugly forces to disrupt the strained surface of Soviet life. . . . The translations in this new collection of Sadur’s plays were collaborative efforts; together with the introduction, they will allow practitioners to understand the work of an important late Soviet playwright. . . .”
The Times Literary Supplement “With Nadya Peterson as editor and main translator, this selection brings Sadur to large new audiences and will probably stand as the best representation of her achievement as a playwright. . . . The language of the volume is well chiseled, the translation flows smoothly. With this admirable achievement, Peterson has performed a commendable service to all Sadur fans and readers of Russian drama, something for which we should be grateful.”
Tatyana Novikov, University of Nebraska-Omaha, The Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature (Vol. 70, No. 2)
The Russian Review (Vol. 74, No. 3)
“This new collection of four plays by Nina Sadur is a welcome addition to the fields of both Russian literature and theatre. It includes some of Sadur’s best-known works as well as some lesser-known plays. . . . [A] very successful collection . . . ”
Marc Robinson, St. Olaf College
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