Yanka Maur's "Selected Works" Released
The "Belarusian Science" publishing house launched a new project "Belarusian Classics".
The first book in this series is "Selected Works. Novellas, short stories, novel chapters" by Yanka Maur. The preface and comments for it were prepared by Valery Nazarau, writes bellit.info.
"Selected Works" is the first scholarly commented edition of Yanka Maur's (1883—1971) creative legacy.
The book includes the popular novellas "Man is Coming", "Son of Water", "Paleski Robinsons", the autobiographical novella "Path from Darkness", short stories "Happiness", "For What?", "It", "Maksimka", "Wooden Spoon", "Journey Around the House", as well as chapters from the unfinished novel "Girl-Mother", the second part of which is published for the first time.
The texts of the works are prepared according to basic textological principles and are accompanied by detailed historical-literary and real commentaries.
The book has 544 pages. The new release can be purchased at the 'Academic Book' bookstore in Minsk.