From the book “Venice. History of water and land" The famous translator Elena Aleksandrovna Surits died at the age of 93. Olga Varshaver reports this on her Facebook page. Elena Surits has translated from English, German, French, Swedish, Norwegian, and Danish since the mid-1960s. Many works by foreign authors were first published in Russian in her translations. Thanks to Elena Surits, Soviet and Russian readers became acquainted with such works as the stories of Edgar Poe, O'Henry, G. K.

Fragment of the book "Shifts: Patterns of Nabokov prose" The Hungarian researcher Zhuzha Heteni wrote in Russian a book, moving the ambition to open "Some closed boxes of the large written table of Nabokov's work." We publish an excerpt where it is discussed why Lolita is not a pornographic novel. Zhuzha Hetheni. Shifts: patterns of Nabokov prose. SPb.: Academic Studies Press/Bibliors, 2022.

Nikolai Protsenko - about the book of Rosie Briidotti "Post -Man" In the first book of the Italian-Australian philosopher Rosie Briidotti translated into Russian, an attempt to construct a new acting face of our time is made: the author calls him a post-member and at a new stage develops criticism of humanism of the type that is associated primarily with the name Michel Foucault.

About the novel by Nobeliat Abdulrazak Gurna "Paradise" Almost nothing is known about the Tanzani writer Abdulrazak Gurn in Russia. There are no translated books, and our general public found out his name only after awarding the Nobel Prize.

About "Nightmares of Beirut" - a novel about the hell of war through the eyes of a woman Ghada al-Samman is a journalist and one of the most important writers in the Middle East. Unfortunately, only one of her novels was published in Russian back in 1987 - “Nightmares of Beirut”, written in civil war-torn Lebanon. Igor Pernikov talks about the biography of al-Samman and her tragic books on Gorky.