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Ulitskaya will present her new novel Imago in the cities of Pécs, Budapest and Debrecen.
Imago presents a period of Russian history extending from the death of Stalin to Gorbachev?s Perestroika in the framework of the lives of three friends, a musician, a poet and a photographer. The complex story unfolds against the backdrop of the Soviet dictatorship and shows how some people maintained their intellectual and material independence during the period, while others were crushed for becoming dissidents.
The book?s metaphorical image is the imago, the last phase of development of an insect.
Ulitskaya, born in 1943, worked as a geneticist and a biochemist. Only after she was fired from her job did her career take a literary turn, as a consultant for Moscow?s Jewish Theatre. There she began writing poems, plays and prose.
Ulitskaya?s novella Sonechka, published in 1992, won her a wide circle of readers. She followed up with Medea and Her Children, and The Funeral Party. Kukotsky?s Case, published in 2000, won Russia?s equivalent of the Boooker Prize.
Ulitskaya was the guest of honour at the 16th Budapest International Book Festival in 2009. There she launched the Hungarian edition of her novel Daniel Stein, Interpreter.
BOOK TOUR
9 September, Friday:
Ulitskaya will be the 25th guest of the Pécs Writers? Programme
4pm ? Book presentation, discussion and signing event at the Information Centre (2/A Universitas Street, Pécs)
Discussion will be hosted by Ulitskaya?s first Hungarian translator Edit V. Gilbert
12 September, Monday:
11am ? Public press conference at the Debrecen University Faculty of Art
4pm ? Book presentation, discussion and signing event in the main building of at the Debrecen University Faculty of Art (1 Egyetem Square, Debrecen)
Discussion will be hosted by the translator of her new book József Goretity
14 September, Wednesday
Literature and Film at the Puskin Cinema
6pm ? Book presentation and discussion in the Metropolis room of Puskin Cinema
Discussion will be hosted by Goretity. The book presentation event will be free of charge.
7pm - Book signing in the Puskin cinema lobby.
8pm ? Preview screening of ?How I Ended This Summer? directed and written by Aleksey Popogrebskiy in the Metropolis screen.
Tickets must be purchased for the screening.
