{"product_id":"russias-lost-literature-of-the-absurd-9780393007237","title":"Russia's Lost Literature of the Absurd","description":"These bizarre and wildly imaginative pieces, written in Soviet Russia forty years ago, are as vital and disturbing as the best of today's absurdist literature. Almost none of the works of Daniil Kharms and Alexander Vvedensky have been published before in any language.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGibian, George:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eGeorge Gibian\u003c\/strong\u003e was Goldwin Smith Professor of Russian and Comparative Literature at Cornell University. His honors include Fulbright, Guggenheim, American Philosophical Society, and Rockefeller Foundation fellowships. He was the author of \u003cem\u003eThe Man in the Black Coat: Russia's Lost Literature of the Absurd\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Interval of Freedom: Russian Literature During the Thaw\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eTolstoj and Shakespeare\u003c\/em\u003e. He was the editor of the Norton Critical Editions of Tolstoy's \u003cem\u003eAnna Karenina\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eWar and Peace\u003c\/em\u003e, and Gogol's \u003cem\u003eDead Souls\u003c\/em\u003e, and of the Viking Penguin \u003cem\u003ePortable Nineteenth-Century Russian Reader\u003c\/em\u003e. Professor Gibian's articles have appeared in the \u003cem\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe New Republic\u003c\/em\u003e, the \u003cem\u003eChristian Science Monitor\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eNewsday\u003c\/em\u003e, among others.","brand":"W. W. Norton \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50491708080402,"sku":"9780393007237","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d2003871-6b7b-4fd3-8a13-539a60688270.jpg?v=1730551289","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/russias-lost-literature-of-the-absurd-9780393007237","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}