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Narrated from the perspective of a middle-aged divorced woman, a teacher of Dagestani literature struggling with the patriarchal pressure of her own family, a story of ideas that escape their creators and start a journey of their own, intermingles with a myriad of other stories about battles of individuals and a state, a person and a society, experiments and traditions, law and enterprise.
The Mountainous Republic was a concept of a secular union of numerous Caucasian peoples that for a brief moment won its way in the historical clash of different visions of the region’s future after the Bolshevik coup. A contest among the Sharia Islamic groups, reactionary imperialistic groups, and leftist and Bolshevist groups that took place right after the dismantling of the Russian Empire, a tangle of Turkish, German, and British influences – all that suddenly reemerges in the present revealing the relevancy of almost the same choice for today.
Recommended Reading
Ganieva, Alisa. Prazdničnaja gora. Moscow: AST, 2012. English: The Mountain and the Wall. Dallas, TX: Deep Vellum, 2015. German: Die russische Mauer. Berlin: Suhrkamp, 2014.
—. Ženich i nevesta. Moscow: AST, 2015. English: Bride and Groom. Dallas, TX: Deep Vellum, 2018. German: Eine Liebe im Kaukasus. Berlin: Suhrkamp, 2016.
—. Oskorblennye čustva. Moscow: AST, 2018. English: Offended Sensibilities. Dallas, TX: Deep Vellum, 2022. German: Verletzte Gefühle. Klagenfurt: Wieser, 2021.
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2023/2024
Alisa Ganieva
Writer
Almaty, Kasachstan
Born in 1985 in Moscow
Studied Creative Writing at Maxim Gorky Literature Institute
Arbeitsvorhaben
Phantasmal Republic, a Novel
Some social movements arise casually and inadvertently, sprouting up from a joke, a slip of a tongue, a momentary sentiment that suddenly acquires life and energy of their own. While toying with reminiscences of The Mountainous Republic, a partially recognized state that blinked on the territory of the North Caucasus just for a few years during the Russian civil war of 1917–1922, a group of friends couldn’t expect that their light talks would crawl from under their control to extend and grow into a real power carrying along characters of different social strata, genders, ethnicities, and worldviews.Narrated from the perspective of a middle-aged divorced woman, a teacher of Dagestani literature struggling with the patriarchal pressure of her own family, a story of ideas that escape their creators and start a journey of their own, intermingles with a myriad of other stories about battles of individuals and a state, a person and a society, experiments and traditions, law and enterprise.
The Mountainous Republic was a concept of a secular union of numerous Caucasian peoples that for a brief moment won its way in the historical clash of different visions of the region’s future after the Bolshevik coup. A contest among the Sharia Islamic groups, reactionary imperialistic groups, and leftist and Bolshevist groups that took place right after the dismantling of the Russian Empire, a tangle of Turkish, German, and British influences – all that suddenly reemerges in the present revealing the relevancy of almost the same choice for today.
Recommended Reading
Ganieva, Alisa. Prazdničnaja gora. Moscow: AST, 2012. English: The Mountain and the Wall. Dallas, TX: Deep Vellum, 2015. German: Die russische Mauer. Berlin: Suhrkamp, 2014.
—. Ženich i nevesta. Moscow: AST, 2015. English: Bride and Groom. Dallas, TX: Deep Vellum, 2018. German: Eine Liebe im Kaukasus. Berlin: Suhrkamp, 2016.
—. Oskorblennye čustva. Moscow: AST, 2018. English: Offended Sensibilities. Dallas, TX: Deep Vellum, 2022. German: Verletzte Gefühle. Klagenfurt: Wieser, 2021.
