There Is Someone in the House (Ľudmila Petruševská)

Ľudmila Petruševská: There Is Someone in the House
Choice of the short stories of a great contemporary Russian writer.
Original title: There Is Someone in the House
Ddate of publishing: 12.09.2011
N° od pages: 220
Binding: Mäkká väzba / Paperback
ISBN: 978-80-89445-29-5
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Ľudmila Petruševská

Ľudmila Petruševská

(1938)

Leading contemporary Russian novelist, playwright, screenwriter and poet. She studied journalism at Moscow State University. She worked as a journalist on television and in various newspapers and magazines. She writes prose and drama since the early 70s. For its roughness and skepticism, her plays are first performed in proffessional theatres only since the early 80s. She made the breakthourgh with her play Three girls in blue and Kolombina´s flat and in early 90s she belonged to the most demanded Russian playwrights. As a novelist, her debut came only in 1988 with a collection of short stories called Immortal love: Stories and in early 90th she published her well-known cycle of stories Songs of the Eastern Slavs and a novella to The Time Night. She is also the author of successful film scripts and scenarios for animated fairy tales. In the past decade, she writes mostly mystical short stories and fairy tales for children and adults. In 2003, she released a CD with an avant-garde free-jazz-rock group Inquisitorum, on which she which sang her lyrics. 
Book of a contemporary Russian writer Lyudmilla Petrushevskaya There is Someone in the House is a selection of stories from different periods of her formation, which represent two groups of texts. The central theme of the first group is the tragic fate of Russian women told by a non-participating observer from a position of cruel realism and shocking by its uncompromising accuracy of detecting the dark recesses of the human soul and a social being. 
The second group are mostly short stories about the mysterious nature of the mystical, mysterious phenomena of our life where possible and impossible, obvious and conjectured, reality and dream are so closely overlapping, and it seems that it is an integral part of lived life. Impact of her texts is enhanced by the application of the principle of authentic registration of a live speech.

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