Book cover against mossy brick background. The cover features a partially shaded female face, lying horizontally across the page. Book info: Nadezhda in the Dark by Yelena Moskovich
A screenshot from the front page of Punctured Lines, featuring the title of the blog and the blog post. Punctured Lines Post-Soviet Literature in and outside the Former Soviet Union “everybody knows . . .” An Excerpt from Nadezhda in the Dark by Yelena Moskovich
A screenshot from the blog post: When asked to contribute our responses to this book, Yelena Furman said: “Brimming with references from Russian and Ukrainian literatures to Alla Pugacheva and the Moscow 1990s gay club scene, Nadezhda in the Dark is a poetic disquisition on global history and self-identity. Discussions of Soviet anti-Semitism and the war in Ukraine merge with explorations of immigration and queer love. In language simultaneously lyrical and sharp, Moskovich shows how the personal and political, the present and past, are inextricably linked in ways that are often traumatic but also occasionally hopeful.” Olga Zilberbourg said: “The Iliad for post-Soviet Jewish dykes . . . Moskovich’s voice commands our attention as it tells – breathlessly, passionately, mixing humor with earnestness – a story about two women whose Soviet roots both unite them and make their relationship impossible. Emotional pitch in this book is turned all the way up! I loved it.”
A screenshot from the blog post: * * * everybody knows Tolstoy and Dostoevsky and Chekhov, and if you’re bookish Bulgakov and Gogol and Pasternak, but who’s talking about Margarita Khemlin, who died a handful of years back and left us with a masterpiece, Klotsvog, sometimes at night, when Nadya has already fallen asleep next to me and the blinds on the slanted window of our bedroom are not fully shut, I lie on my back and glimpse the broad nighttime sky, a dark milky sky, a pauper’s sky, a dreamer’s sky,
Today, we're celebrating the publication of Yelena Moskovich's NADEZHDA IN THE DARK, a novel-in-verse brought to us in the US by Dzanc Books. A story of a relationship, this book offers a review of recent history with Russia's war against Ukraine at the center.
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