Girls Without Clothes
Poems | Bilingual edition (Russian/German)
Selection from Старый мир. Починка жизни, published in Russian by Novoe in 2020
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The contents of the Suhrkamp-edition are also included in the Italian selection of poems to be published by Bompiani and the Swedish edition of The Body Returns (Kroppens återkomst), published by Nirstedt/literatur in 2021. Other language rights are available.
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Girls Without Clothes / Mädchen ohne Kleider
Poems | Bilingual edition (Russian/German)
Selection from Старый мир. Починка жизни, published in Russian by Novoe in 2020
Leipzig Book Prize for European Understanding 2023
Girls Without Clothes, Clothes Without Us, If Air – Maria Stepanova continues her endeavour of »mending life« in her new cycles of poems. They can be prompted by chance finds such as the photo of a young unnamed woman, naked on a chaise longue, exposed to the eye of the suitor like game to the hunter. The existential impulse to withdraw women from the pornographic gaze and to save them by capturing their defencelessness in poetry can be felt in...
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Girls Without Clothes, Clothes Without Us, If Air – Maria Stepanova continues her endeavour of »mending life« in her new cycles of poems. They can be prompted by chance finds such as the photo of a young unnamed woman, naked on a chaise longue, exposed to the eye of the suitor like game to the hunter. The existential impulse to withdraw women from the pornographic gaze and to save them by capturing their defencelessness in poetry can be felt in every line. Stepanova uses her masterful skill to transform shock into lucid, unpathetic verses.
This bilingual edition, which includes the (long) poems Girls Without Clothes, Clothes Without Us & If Air, derives from the volume Старый мир. Починка жизни (Novoe, 2019; translated English title: The old world. Mending life).
This bilingual edition, which includes the (long) poems Girls Without Clothes, Clothes Without Us & If Air, derives from the volume Старый мир. Починка жизни (Novoe, 2019; translated English title: The old world. Mending life).
»These are poems about the immortal essence of poetry.« Echo (Russia)
»In her new cycles of poems, ... the topic of the layers is varied: time and again, there are clothes that cover bodies or – when taken off – become wistful testimonies of times past, flimsy mementos.« Ilma Rakusa, Neue Zürcher Zeitung
»[Stepanova] shows in an exemplary way how a contemporary poetic language is created from an awareness of history and literary history.« Helmut Böttiger, taz am wochenende
»Where Maria Stepanova gets the images she uses in her poems, one after the other, is unfathomable.« Frankfurter Rundschau
»In her new cycles of poems, ... the topic of the layers is varied: time and again, there are clothes that cover bodies or – when taken off – become wistful testimonies of times past, flimsy mementos.« Ilma Rakusa, Neue Zürcher Zeitung
»[Stepanova] shows in an exemplary way how a contemporary poetic language is created from an awareness of history and literary history.« Helmut Böttiger, taz am wochenende
»Where Maria Stepanova gets the images she uses in her poems, one after the other, is unfathomable.« Frankfurter Rundschau
»These are poems about the immortal essence of poetry.« Echo (Russia)
»In her new cycles of poems, ... the topic of the layers is varied: time and again, there are clothes that cover bodies or – when taken off – become wistful testimonies of times past, flimsy mementos.« Ilma Rakusa, Neue Zürcher Zeitung
»[Stepanova] shows in an exemplary way how a contemporary poetic language is created from an awareness of...
»In her new cycles of poems, ... the topic of the layers is varied: time and again, there are clothes that cover bodies or – when taken off – become wistful testimonies of times past, flimsy mementos.« Ilma Rakusa, Neue Zürcher Zeitung
»[Stepanova] shows in an exemplary way how a contemporary poetic language is created from an awareness of...
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2020, 69 pages
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Maria Stepanova
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Maria Stepanova, born in Moscow in 1972, is a poet, essayist and journalist. Her works have received numerous international prizes. She has been a formative figure in Moscow’s cosmopolitan literary scenefor a good twenty years. Following the success of her first prose work Памяти памяти, she is now internationally regarded as one of Europe's most important intellectual voices.
Suhrkamp represents world rights to Maria Stepanova’s oeuvre.
Suhrkamp represents world rights to Maria Stepanova’s oeuvre.
Maria Stepanova
Author
Maria Stepanova, born in Moscow in 1972, is a poet, essayist and journalist. Her works have received numerous international prizes. She has been a...
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