LEADER 03028nam 2200553 450 001 9910465889303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-231-18082-9 024 7 $a10.7312/ilia18082 035 $a(CKB)3710000001386421 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5276040 035 $a(DE-B1597)480280 035 $a(OCoLC)962750361 035 $a(OCoLC)984622619 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780231543293 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL5276040 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11529531 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000001386421 100 $a20190118d2017 uy 1 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aRapture $ea novel /$fIliazd ; translated by Thomas J. Kitson 210 1$aNew York :$cColumbia University Press,$d[2017] 210 4$dİ2017 215 $a1 online resource (l, 188 pages) 225 1 $aRussian library 311 $a0-231-18083-7 311 $a0-231-54329-8 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tIntroduction: The Golden Excrement of the Avant-Garde -- $t1 -- $t2 -- $t3 -- $t4 -- $t5 -- $t6 -- $t7 -- $t8 -- $t9 -- $t10 -- $t11 -- $t12 -- $t13 -- $t14 -- $t15 -- $t16 -- $tNotes 330 $aThe draft dodger Laurence yearns to take control of his destiny. Having fled to the highlands, he asserts his independence by committing a string of robberies and murders. Then he happens upon Ivlita, a beautiful young woman trapped in an intricately carved mahogany house. Laurence does not hesitate to take her as well. Determined to drape his young bride in jewels, he plots ever more daring heists. Yet when Laurence finds himself casting bombs alongside members of a revolutionary cell, he must again ask: is he a free man or a pawn of history?Rapture is a fast-paced adventure-romance and a literary treat of the highest order. With a deceptively light hand, Iliazd entertains questions that James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and Thomas Mann once faced. How does the individual balance freedom and necessity, love and death, creativity and sterility? What is the role of violence in human history and culture? How does language both comfort and fail us in our postwar, post-Christian world?Censored for decades in the Soviet Union, Rapture was nearly lost to Russian and Western audiences. This translation rescues Laurence's surreal journey from the oblivion he, too, faces as he tries to outrun fate. 410 0$aRussian library (Columbia University. Press) 606 $aRussian fiction$y20th century$vTranslations into English 606 $aRussian literature$vTranslations into English 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aRussian fiction 615 0$aRussian literature 676 $a891.73/42 700 $aIliazd$f1894-1975,$01053535 702 $aKitson$b Thomas J$g(Thomas James),$f1968- 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910465889303321 996 $aRapture$92485486 997 $aUNINA