Lyudmila Ulitskaya Quotes

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Love and hunger rule the world. It's terribly banal, but that's the way it is.

Lyudmila Ulitskaya

After a long retreat, the sun finally slipped down like a fifty-kopeck piece behind the bed, and a few minutes later it was night.

Lyudmila Ulitskaya

He enjoyed the everydayness of life; like a hunter, he had spent his life chasing after mirages of form and color, but now he knew there had been nothing better than these senseless parties where people were united by wine, friendship and cheerfulness in this studio with no table, where they laid a makeshift table-top on trestles.

Lyudmila Ulitskaya

Literature is the best thing humanity has. Poetry is the heart of literature, the highest concentration of everything that is the best in the world and in man. It is the only true food for your soul.

Lyudmila Ulitskaya

Form is what transforms the content of a work into its essence.

Lyudmila Ulitskaya

Maybe it was true that only beauty would save the world, or truth, or some other high-flown garbage; but fear was still more powerful than anything else. Fear destroyed everything: everything born of beauty, the tender shoots of all that was fine, wise, eternal...

Lyudmila Ulitskaya

Lyudmila Ulitskaya

Lyudmila Ulitskaya

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Born: February 21, 1943 (age 81)

Bio: Lyudmila Evgenyevna Ulitskaya is an internationally acclaimed modern Russian novelist and short-story writer who, in 2014, was awarded the prestigious Austrian State Prize for European Literature for her oeuvre.

Known for:

The Big Green Tent: A Novel (2015)
Sonechka (1998)
The Funeral Party (1999)
Medea and Her Children (2002)
Daniel Stein, Interpreter (2011)

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