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The Supervisor of the Sea & Other Stories
Published in Paperback by Xenos Books (15 March, 2003)
Author: Emil Draitser
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Belonging and Alienation
I have been following Emil Draitser's career ever since he published his bilingual edition of Soviet underground jokes. This collection of 14 short stories is a more ambitious work that fully deserves a wider audience. The stories may vary in length, tone, content or point of view, but the author invariably tailors them to illuminate one or more aspects of the human condition. Whether he is masterfully depicting the poignant no-exit situation in Zugzwang, or the pathos of belonging and alienation in American Lady, or the precarious existence of the writer in the former Soviet Union in Faithful Masha, Mr. Draitser is always engaging. Highly recommended.

At Sea in a New Genre
When you launch into "The Supervisor of the Sea," be prepared to leave behind your compass of familiar landmarks. In these haunting dreamlike tales, Emil Draitser has charted a new genre: Russian-American surrealism. This is a marriage of Ilf & Petrov's satire with Garcia Marquez' magical realism, filtered thru Andre Breton's sensibility making an honored guest of the unconscious. To boot, some stories take place in the Kafkaesque U.S.S.R., whose mystique cannot be shed by the mere expedient of emigration.
As a chess devotee, this reader zeroed in on the story "Zugzwang." This term in the royal game denotes a situation where one must move, but any move makes the position worse. Non-players may appreciate the feeling if absorbed in a Draitser tale and suddenly forced to evade a flood or an avalanche. Short of those, you will not want to put it down.
-Anthony Saidy


Forbidden Laughter
Published in Paperback by Almanac Press (1980)
Author: Emil Draitser
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The Case of the Fragmented Woman
Published in Hardcover by St. Martin's Press (1986)
Author: Cleo Jones
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Peshchera neozhidannostei : rasskazy
Published in Unknown Binding by çEffekt ; Distributed by Maxim Books ()
Author: Emil Draitser
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Peshchera Neozhidannosti
Published in Paperback by Effect Pub (1984)
Authors: Emil Draitser, Viktor Nekrasov, and Vasilij Aksyonov
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Poterialsia malchik
Published in Paperback by Maxim Books (1993)
Author: Emil Draitser
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Russkie Poety XIX Veka: Antologiia Dlia Studentov
Published in Paperback by Hermitage (1999)
Author: Emil Draitser
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Color Choices
Published in Hardcover by Watson-Guptill Pubns (1989)
Author: Stephen Quiller
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Techniques of Satire: The Case of Saltykov-Scedrin (Humor Research ; 2)
Published in Hardcover by Walter de Gruyter, Inc. (1994)
Author: Emil A. Draitser
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