Modern Writers Of The World
The Romans Michael Shiskin are more sold in Germany, and Akunin, Pelevin and Lukjanenko are in England and America. There are others, but there are no progress in the speech. So far, the main Russian book success is the purchase by Alexander Mamot of the British Book Network Waterstone’s.
♪ You know this prefaced figure - translations of art literature from Russian to English account for less than 3 per cent of the total number of translations, hardly within the limits of statistical error. Translations from Russians are no longer on the Best Translated Books Award list. Why is that?
♪ Of course there's something to export, anyone who reads anything from modern Russian literature knows that. But oddly, the main modern Russian writers have to compete with the Russian classics of the nineteenth century. Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Chekov is a yes, but here's the Golina or the Macanina, they're more careful.
No one's done it for a long time. The Russians didn't have practical similarities to the British Council, the Geet Institute of Cervantes. It was thought that the invisible hand of the market would put everything in place and show us who was worth it. In fact, the degree of interest in Russian literature is certainly related to Russia ' s own interest, and now Russia is not very interested in the Western reader.
But I still believe that we can convince the readers that reading modern Russian novels is not so exotic. And you need to do it through English agents and critics, explain to publishers that publishing Russian books is not a waste of time, that there are hits that need to be fired sooner or later. It's all gonna happen, just not right away. But for this to happen, I want it to be on my own. Russian authors They believed in themselves and searched more actively for publishers outside Russia.
♪ What's the use of Russian literature now?
♪ Different from the novels, which explains how life in Russia is actually built, in Russia, in particular from here on, for example, the acquired rights to transfer Andrei Rubanova, to detectives, spying trillers and fantastics. Akunin, Lukjanenko, Sergei Kostin, Master Chen. In fact, it's hard to say that it's straightforward. More like the publishers are still experimenting with these books.
