IBIDEM PRESS
Quaternity
Four Novellas from the Carpathians MARIA RYBAKOVA
The Putin Predicament
Problems of Legitimacy and Succession in Russia BO PETERSSON
“[Rybakova] has a superb ear for seamlessly layering different registers. . . . Her winningly touching novel deserves an afterlife of its own in an English translation.”
Foreword by J. Paul Goode “An original and important interpretation of Vladimir Putin’s approach to gaining, holding, and exercising
F O R S A L E I N T H E U N I T E D S TAT E S , C A N A D A , M E X I CO, C E N T R A L A M E R I C A , S O U T H A M E R I C A , T H E C A R I B B E A N , AU ST R A L I A , N E W Z E A L A N D, A N D A S I A ( E XC LU D I N G C H I N A A N D I N D I A )
—Andrew Kahn, Times Literary Supplement
power.”
This book presents four thematically linked novellas that focus on obsessive relationships, stolen identities, and illusions of grandeur in the post-1989 Carpathian-Balkan region. An American expat in Europe appropriates the identity of a Romanian orphan in her desperate search for love; a dictator’s daughter learns, while on a study trip to France, that her parents have been overthrown and are about to be executed; a minor character from a novel confronts her own insignificance; a wife announces to her husband of forty years that she’s just been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
—Paul D’Anieri, University of California
MARIA RYBAKOVA
has won several prizes for her Russian-
language novels, including the Globus, Eureka, Anthologia, the Students’ Booker, and the Russian Prize. Her novels have been translated into German, Spanish, and French. She teaches literature at Nazarbayev University in Kazakhstan.
Bo Petersson analyzes the legitimization strategies employed during Vladimir Putin’s third and fourth terms in office, arguing that they have rested on Putin’s highly personalized blend of strongman-image projection and presentation as the embodiment of Russia’s great power myth. Putin appears as the only credible guarantor against renewed weakness, political chaos, and interference from abroad—in particular from the United States. The book discusses how Putin’s charismatic authority is increasingly questioned by opposition from Alexei Navalny, the effects of unpopular reforms, and poor handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. BO PETERSSON
is professor of political science at the
Department of Global Political Studies at Malmö University. J. PAUL GOODE
is associate professor and McMillan Chair of
Russian Studies at Carleton University, Ottawa.
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