The Judgment of Richard Richter
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The Judgment of Richard Richter by Igor Stiks
Translated from the Croatian, Elijahova stolica.
“Sarajevo, mon amourFast-paced with lot of adventure and well-developed characters. [The Judgment of Richard Richter] is a reminder of how this martyr country has been abandoned by the West and continues to be so.” —Anne Dastakian, MARIANNE, France “[This] personal and geopolitical tragedy, [set] in besieged 1992 Sarajevo, follows the footsteps of Richard Richter, hero and Oedipal detective…” —Véronique Rossignol, Livres Hebdo, France “The idea that happiness and love are simply masking a truth that is revealed too late, after irreparable damage had been committed, is certainly a very psychoanalytic inspiration, but in the words of Igor Štiks, it is detailed in a poignant and terribly convincing text.” —Yves Le Gall, Le Matricule des Anges, France “Štiks, who juggles literary allusions as masterfully as he does time periods and narrative perspectives, has succeeded in producing a mature and impressive novel.” —Hendrik Werner, Die Welt, Germany “[The Judgment of Richard Richter] is an adventurous, daring, and powerful march through our era—a bridge between the European catastrophes of the past century. [Štiks] has succeeded in nothing less than an all-European historical romance.” —Thomas Hummitzsch, Die Berliner Literaturkritik, Germany
Igor Štiks was born in Sarajevo in 1977 and has lived in Zagreb, Paris, Chicago, Edinburgh, and Belgrade. His first novel, A Castle in Romagna, won the Slavić prize for best first novel in Croatia and was nominated for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award for 2006. Earning his PhD at the Institut d’Études Politiques de Paris and Northwestern University, Štiks later published a monograph, Nations and Citizens in Yugoslavia and the Post-Yugoslav States: One Hundred Years of Citizenship. His novel The Judgment of Richard Richter, originally published as Elijah’s Chair, won the Gjalski and Kiklop Awards for the best novel in Croatia and has been translated into fifteen languages. In addition to winning the Grand Prix of the 2011 Belgrade International Theatre Festival for his stage adaptation of Elijah’s Chair, Štiks was honored with the prestigious Chevalier des arts et des lettres for his literary and intellectual achievements. Ellen Elias-Bursac has been translating novels and nonfiction by Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian writers for thirty years. She is the recipient of the 2006 ALTA National Translation Award, an American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages award, and the Mary Zirin Prize for her book Translating Evidence and Interpreting Testimony at a War Crimes Tribunal: Working in a Tug-of-War. A contributing editor to the online literary journal Asymptote, Elias-Bursac spent more than six years at the ex–Yugoslav War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague as a translator/reviser in the English Translation Unit. Her translation of Daša Drndić's novel Trieste was short-listed for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in 2013.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781503946668 |
| ISBN 10 | 1503946665 |
| Title | The Judgment of Richard Richter |
| Author | Igor Stiks |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Amazon Publishing |
| Year published | 2017-09-01 |
| Number of pages | 300 |
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