Tuesday, March 01, 2011

Poetic Obituaries: What distinguishes Anna [Yablonskaya]'s plays,

poems and prosaic works was her embrace of tragedy. Whether strikingly comic, shrill or quiet, all her texts have a tragic touch. Her characters are estranged from this world, coping with problems They are mostly unhappy and live broken lives, but at the same time they are shown from a comic and grotesque perspective. Her texts also strike the reader as starkly realistic, portrayals of life in post-Soviet Russia and Ukraine.

from Russia Beyond the Headlines: A poet's tragic end

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