Come witness a meeting of literary luminaries from starkly different worlds – West and East, the English-speaking world and the Russian-speaking. Those worlds, so recently opposed and alien to one another, now appear to be converging – but at what point do they meet?
Martin Louis Amis is one of the most important writers of our time. He is the author of twelve novels, the memoir Experience, two collections of stories and six of nonfiction, most recently The Second Plane. Mr. Amis has penned a number of Britain's best-known novels, including Money (1984) and London Fields (1989). His books have been included in such lists as “100 All-Time Novels” and Time's “100 best English-language novels of 1923 to 2005,” and Mr. Amis himself was named “one of the 50 greatest British writers since 1945” by the London Times in 2008.
Olga Alexandrovna Slavnikova is one of the most important voices in Russian literature today and an internationally known novelist. She characterizes the approach she takes in her six novels and numerous short stories as the inverse of “magical realism”: she introduces a fantastical element into an everyday context to create a kind of grotesque of the latter that Mr. Amis, one imagines, might appreciate.
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