The body of the soul : stories
Ulit︠s︡kai︠a︡, Li︠u︡dmila2024
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While we can feel, know, and study the body, the soul refuses definition. Where does it begin and end? What does the soul have to do with love? Does it exist at all, and if so, does it outlast the body? Or are the soul and body really one and the same? These are questions posed by the characters who inhabit this book of stories by the award-winning Russian writer Ludmila Ulitskaya. A woman believes that the best way to control her life is to control her death. A landscape photographer wonders if the beauty he has witnessed can triumph over decay. A coroner dedicated to science is confronted by a startling physical anomaly, a lonely widow experiences an extraordinary transformation, a woman whose life is devoted to language finds words slipping away from her. In these eleven stories Ulitskaya maps the edges of our lives, tracing a delicate geography of the soul.
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The body of the soul : stories / Ludmila Ulitskaya ; translated by Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky.
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New Haven : Yale University Press, 2024.
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168 pages ; 20 cm.
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Translated from the Russian.
ISBN:
9780300270938 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
891.735
Language:
EnglishRussian
BRN:
2679750
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