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  Tatyana Tolstaya - Encyclopedia.com
Increasingly recognized as one of the major European writers of the postwar generation, Tolstaya is part of a Russian literary dynasty—Aleksey N. Tolstoy 's granddaughter and Leo Tolstoy 's great-grandniece.
Novelist and journalist Tatyana Tolstaya, a distant relative of novelist Leo Tolstoy, wrote the introduction.
Tolstaya recalled that in 1974, as she was...
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  Tatyana Tolstaya - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Tolstaya received her education at the department of classical philology of the Leningrad State University.
Several collections of short stories by Tatyana Tolstaya are popular all over Russia, and she is regarded by the general public as one of the foremost writers of today.
Tatyana Tolstaya is the co-host of a very successful Russian TV show called The School for Scandal (Школа злословия), where she interviews representatives of Russian culture and politics.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tatyana_Tolstaya   (299 words)

  
 Tatyana Tolstaya -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Tatyana Tolstaya (also Tatiana Tolstaya) is a well-known modern (A federation in northeastern Europe and northern Asia; formerly Soviet Russia; since 1991 an independent state) Russian writer, TV-host, (Someone who publicizes) publicist, (Someone who writes novels) novelist, and (A writer of literary works) essayist.
Several collections of short stories by Tatyana Tolstaya are popular all over (A federation in northeastern Europe and northern Asia; formerly Soviet Russia; since 1991 an independent state) Russia, and she is regarded by the general public as one of the foremost writers of today.
Tatyana Tolstaya is the co-host of a very successful Russian (A program broadcast by television) TV show called The School for Scandal (Школа злословия), where she interviews representatives of (additional info and facts about Russian culture) Russian culture and (The study of government of states and other political units) politics.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/t/ta/tatyana_tolstaya.htm   (400 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Tatyana Tolstaya (Russian And Eastern European Literature, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Tatyana Tolstaya, Russian And Eastern European Literature, Biographies
Tatyana Tolstaya[tOlstI´yA] Pronunciation Key, 1951–;, Russian short-story writer and essayist.
Increasingly recognized as one of the major European writers of the postwar generation, Tolstaya is part of a Russian literary dynasty : Aleksey N. Tolstoy's granddaughter and Leo Tolstoy's great-grandniece.
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 Granddaughter of Russian classic author Alexei Tolstoy, writer Tatyana Tolstaya became TV show-woman - PRAVDA.Ru   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Tolstaya represents the unique example of long life in literature, and her stories written 20 years ago successfully compete with the variety of contemporary prose for women.
For this reason new writer Tatyana Tolstaya from the family of long-standing writing traditions, the well and broadly educated person (she graduated from the Department of Philology of Leningrad University and worked at the Oriental Literature Department of Nauka Publishing House for 8 years), started a new stage in Russian literature.
The name of Tatyana Tolstaya was put in the row of the leading figures of the Russian fantasy genre such as the brothers Strugatskies, Mikhail Uspensky, Andrey Lazarchuk and others.
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 english.russ.ru Andrei Ashkerov. Tatyana Tolstaya and the Power of the Intelligentsia.
An intellectual trendsetter belongs to the intelligentsia which, in its turn, gives him or her a chance to become its heir, a recipient of moral and spiritual traditions, an authorized steward of the monopolistic right to be the nation’s conscience.
Tolstaya is no exception here: her skeptical attitude - the invariable mask of all-knowing irony - is a sure evidence of this fact.
Thus, Tolstaya is frightened by Malevich’s gaping fl square, a fl gullet of the Revolution.
english.russ.ru /krug/20020325.html   (1890 words)

  
 The Slynx by Tatyana Tolstaya - read review
Tolstaya is a descendant of the great Leo Tolstoy but that might be beside the point.
Tolstaya's futuristic Russia might not be very different from the one she often complains about.
Tatayana Tolstaya, born in 1951, was described by the late Russian poet Joseph Brodsky as "the most original, tactile, luminous voice in Russian prose today." Increasingly recognized as one of the major European writers of the postwar generation, Tolstaya is Leo Tolstoy's great-grandniece.
mostlyfiction.com /world/tolstaya.htm   (711 words)

  
 Tatyana Tolstaya Biography and Summary
Though a controversial figure in her own country, during the second half of the 1980s Tatyana Tolstaya impressed Western readers as the uncontested premier Russian prosaist of a new era.
Tatyana Tolstaya (also spelled Tatiana Tolstaya, in Russian: Татья́на Ники́тишна Толста́я) is a well-known modern Russian writer, TV-host, publicist, novelist, and essayist.
Life and work She was born on 3 May, 1951 in Leningrad...
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Pushkin's Children is a collection of essays by Tatyana Tolstaya - sprawling book reviews published in the NY Review of Books, pieces from the New Yorker, and other such.
Perhaps this is a testimony to my lack of experience with Russian writers, but Tolstaya managed, for example, to put together the first convincing explanation for why Russians hate Gorbachev.
In page after a gripping page, Tolstaya brings up other historical examples of "Great Terrors" - like the time of Ivan the Terrible - and small everyday tyrannies that are sometimes considered unique to the Soviet period of Russian history, but that actually repeated themselves throughout Russia's history.
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 Tatyana Tolstaya   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
A great-grandneice of Leo Tolstoy, Tatyana Tolstaya was born in St. Petersburg.
She is the author of two collections of stories and Pushkin’s Children: Writing on Russia and Russians.
Tolstaya has taught at Princeton University and, for many years, Skidmore College.
www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com /catalog/authordetail.cfm?authorID=7962   (61 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Pushkin's Children : Writing on Russia and Russians: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Tolstaya covers a broad range of topics: classical Russian cooking, the bliss of snow, Russian writers, and some of the changes that have taken place in Russia under the regimes of Gorbachev, Yeltsin, and Putin.
Tolstaya, who lives in Russia, has the advantage of having seen and experienced firsthand both the literary and the political changes that have swept the country, and this perspective gives her essays and reviews a sharp edge; she can convey a humorous or a satirical tone depending on her topic.
Tolstaya pictures the intelligentsia as being too moral to grasp the downside of what would happen when "Gorbachev made his first, and perhaps his most serious, mistake.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0618125000?v=glance   (2323 words)

  
 Tatyana Tolstaya - NYRB
Tatyana Tolstaya was born in Leningrad in 1951 to an aristocratic family that includes the writers Leo and Alexei Tolstoy.
In the mid-1980s, she began publishing short stories in literary magazines and her first story collection established her as one of the foremost writers of the Gorbachev era.
In Tolstaya's vaudevillian-dystopian novel, set 200 years after an apocalyptic disaster destroys Russia, a lowly scribe is elevated to a life of privilege and becomes the bibliophile from hell.
www.nybooks.com /nyrb/authors/106   (260 words)

  
 New Book, Post-Soviet Russia - Johnson's Russia List 1-13-03
Yet one need not be a book critic to appreciate Tatyana Tolstaya's scintillating prose and the bold, provocative assertions that breathe life into her reviews about Russia and Russians, transforming disparate essays into a discomfiting primer on post-Soviet Russian reality: "Pushkin's Children."
Or "The Great Terror." Tolstaya has bad news for all those Russians (and American cold warriors) who deny that Soviet totalitarianism "arose in the bleak depths of Russian history." Although she admits that "it's impossible to figure out when this senseless mess started," she doesn't scrimp when distributing blame.
Paradoxically, though, Tatyana Tolstaya appears to have donned the mantle of citizen; of Gogol, Dostoyevsky and, yes, Tolstoy, to resurrect the message of Russia's greatest poet.
www.cdi.org /russia/johnson/7014-14.cfm   (631 words)

  
 Tatyana Tolstaya Biography
Tatyana Tolstaya was born May 3, 1951, in Leningrad, U.S.S.R. (now St. Petersburg, Russia).
Still, Tolstaya's background is undeniably one of culture and education.
Her father was a physics professor who taught her two languages, and her maternal grandfather was a well-known translator.
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 Powell's Books - Review-a-Day - Pushkin's Children: Writing on Russia and Russians by Tatyana Tolstaya, reviewed by The ...
As her surname indicates, Tatyana Tolstaya comes from a literary family.
As Alma Guillermoprieto writes in her introduction to Pushkin's Children, Tolstaya's collection of essays, "the near-sacred family name shielded its members from terror" during the Stalin era, and Tatyana grew up in relative luxury in her parents' book-filled apartment.
There are pages in Tatyana Tolstaya's novel that no doubt will have them splitting their sides in Moscow and St. Petersburg, but they will leave the Western reader glum and stony-faced, wondering what all the laughter is about.
www.powells.com /review/2003_03_06.html   (1535 words)

  
 Tatyana Tolstaya   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Tatyana Tolstaya is one of the most highly respected fiction writers in contemporary Russia; she writes almost exclusively short stories (though she has recently published a futuristic, "anti-utopian" novella), which often focus on the lives, loves, illusions and desires of "little people" - the middling and middle class of Russia's cities, Petersburg in particular.
As you read these stories, I'd like you to consider the categories which Farraday uses in his writing to talk about contemporary Russian film culture; to some extent these categories can also be applied to contemporary fiction and poetry.
How does Tolstaya's depiction of people's private lives compare with other authors we've read this semester (or films we've seen)?
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 Tatyana Tolstaya (II)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
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 clew's reviews: a book log: The Slynx, Tatyana Tolstaya
, Tatyana Tolstaya]]>" dc:identifier="http://www.tenhand.com/clew/blog/archives/000325.html" dc:subject="Fiction (21st c.)" dc:description="Russia in a fantastic, tumorous re-Neolithic age, after a perplexing Blast; published without illustrations, but those can be assembled from elsewhere.
The scraps-and-mutations culture post-Blast is tragic or cathartic, but usually violently cheerful; they live on mice & under Directives, but with high spirits.
Tolstaya's prose is vast, rumpageous, cheery, full of dialogue that it's a pleasure to repeat out loud.
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 The Making of Mr. Putin By Tatyana Tolstaya   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Description: Although Tatyana Tolstaya has become well known as a personality and commentator on current events, her widely popular...
Russian prose today," Tatyana Tolstaya has published stories in The New Yorker and The Paris Review, trenchant journalism in the The New Republic and The New...
Susan Sontag, Norman Mailer, Tatyana Tolstaya, Wallace Shawn, Mark Strand...
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 Middle East Open Encyclopedia: Tatyana Tolstaya   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
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 ipedia.com: Russian literature Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Many critics have praised this novel as a new Doctor Zhivago large-scale russian novel, which tells the story of a russian family Gradov struggling to survive in the Stalin era.
Several Russian writers have been rather popular in the West, such as Tatyana Tolstaya and especially Lyudmila Ulitskaya.
Detective story writer Boris Akunin with his series about 19th century sleuth Erast Fandorin is being published in Europe and USA.
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 Granddaughter of Russian classic author Alexei Tolstoy, writer Tatyana Tolstaya became TV show-woman - PRAVDA.Ru
The publishers swiftly followed with printing two more books by Tolstay -"Day" and "Night" composed of all the texts she had written.
After that, book of collected stories and travel notes "Izyum" was published.
Nowadays Russian prose for women has variety of genres, sometimes very unusual (such as the works by Andrey Gelasimov who successfully mastered "women"" genre).
english.pravda.ru /science/19/95/380/11909_writer.html   (1364 words)

  
 A JUNGIAN ANALYSIS OF TATYANA TOLSTAYA'S SHORT STORY "PETERS.
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Argues that the title character has a "mother complex," as well as repressed feelings over his failed relations with women.
Also discusses how the character of the grandmother symbolizes the "negative engulfing mother." At the end, Peters has an awakening which enables him to accept his own condition.
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 The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition: Tolstaya, Tatyana @ HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
TOLSTAYA, TATYANA [Tolstaya, Tatyana], 1951-, Russian short-story writer and essayist.
Increasingly recognized as one of the major European writers of the postwar generation, Tolstaya is part of a Russian literary dynasty—Aleksey N. Tolstoy 's granddaughter and Leo Tolstoy 's great-grandniece.
Bibliography: See H. Goscilo, The Explosive World of Tatyana N. Tolstaya (1995).
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