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Join us in the bookshop to hear Bryan Karetnyk in conversation with Sarah Gear about Happiness by Yuri Felsen.
6.30pm on Thursday 30th April at Golden Hare Books, 68 St Stephen Street, EH3 5AQ.
Buy a copy of Happiness and receive free entry to the event, or choose our Ticket-Only option for 6 (which can be used towards a purchase of the book at the event).
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AboutHappinessand Yuri Felsen Happiness is the second part of Yuri Felsens The Recurrence of Things Past trilogy, following the critically acclaimed Deceit. Both subtle and profound in its exploration of love, art, literature, and human frailty, Felsens trilogy traces the tormented romance of its protagonist alongside his artistic evolution, standing at the forefront of aesthetic and philosophical currents in European modernism.
Yuri Felsenwas the pseudonym of Nikolai Freudenstein. Born in St Petersburg in 1894, he emigrated in the wake of the Russian Revolution, first to Riga and then to Berlin, before finally settling in Paris in 1923. In France, he became one of the leading writers of his generation, alongside the likes of Vladimir Nabokov; influenced by the great modernists such as Marcel Proust, James Joyce and Virginia Woolf, his writing stood at the forefront of aesthetic and philosophical currents in European literature. Following the German occupation of France at the height of his career, Felsen tried to escape to Switzerland; however, he was caught, arrested and interned in Drancy concentration camp. He was deported in 1943 and killed in the gas chambers at Auschwitz.
About Bryan Karetnyk Bryan Karetnykis a British writer and translator. His recent translations include major works by Gaito Gazdanov, Irina Odoevtseva and Boris Poplavsky. He is also the editor of the landmark Penguin Classics anthologyRussian Emigre Short Stories from Bunin to Yanovsky.
About Sarah GearSarah Gear teaches Russian language and literature at the University of St Andrews. She researches contemporary Russian fiction and translation, and her forthcoming book, Translating Novels from Putin’s Russia, explores how political bias shapes the publication and reception of contemporary Russophone literature abroad. Sarah is also Assistant Interview Editor for the international literary translation journal Asymptote, and her reviews and interviews have appeared there, as well as in theTimes Literary Supplement, theLos Angeles Review of Books, Modern Language Review, Full Stop,theGlasgow Review of Books,andRights in Russia.
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