Больно только когда смеюсь

by Dina Rubina, Dina Rubina

Ne otnosites tak serezno k literaturnym tekstam, eto ne bogovdoxnovennaya Bibliya. Malo li chto pisatelyu vzbredet v golovu vspomnit!?- Xoroshij pisatel vsegda vrun v samom oslepitelnom smysle etogo slova. K tomu zhe ya otnoshus k tomu rodu lyudej, kotorye yubyat svoe nastoyashhee, a ne proshloe. I detstvo i yunost u menya byli trudny. I kogda vse eto trepetnoe baraxlo ostalos v proshlom, ya vzdoxnula polnoj grudyu i ponyala, chto nichem ne obyazana samoj sebe - svoim vospominaniyam, detskim privyazannostyam, detskim mechtam.

Genres: Russia

1043 pages, nookbook (ebook)

First published January 1, 2008

About the author

also: Дина Рубина

Russian-Israeli prose writer. Her most famous work is Dual Surname (Двойная фамилия) which was recently turned into a film screened on Russia's Channel One.

Rubina writes in Russian.

Her novel "На солнечной стороне улицы" (On the Sunny Side of the Street) won The Big Book Prize (2007, Russia).

Reviews

[Victoria Dim]

Вдумчиво, задорно, саркастично и очень лично. Местами пугает, местами вдохновляет. Дина Ильинична за словом в карман, что называется, не лезет.

[sama]

В этом мире всё постоянно меняется, но, слава богу, одна вещь остается неизменной — это тот факт, что я бесконечно люблю и уважаю Дину Ильиничну.

[Victoria Evangelina Allen]

~WRITER ABOUT HER WORLD~

I am very prejudiced about this book. I love the way Dina Rubina spins the yarn of her stories and novels. I love how she conveys the smallest yet significant details of life. I even love that she grew up in Tashkent, my home town. From this book, I got acquainted with her as a person, a woman, a writer in process of creation... and now I love what a strong spirited, witty woman she is!

I dream that when I travel to Israel (one of the few countries I have not been to yet) I be given a privilege to "land" on her balcony and meet this wonderful lady face to face. Why? Well... before my trip, I think I have some time to search for a really good excuse, so I do not waste her time in vein! :)

I recommend this book to everyone who enjoys Dina Rubina's books. For now, I go around with this book, and read out loud funny pieces to my friends and relative: and every time I am laughing till tears well in my eyes! There is a lot of daily, "simple" wisdom in this book and I hope that people who laughed with me at, for example, Rubina's "translation" of an Uzbek manuscript into Russian, decide to read the book for themselves.

Victoria Evangelina Belyavskaya

PS I wish more of her books were translated into English: I would gift all of my English speaking friends with Rubina's masterpieces, especially, the "Leonardo's Handwriting", my favorite as of today. (http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...)

[Elizabeth Wood]

I love these interviews with Dina Rubina. She is alternately funny and wise, always lyrical but often with strong (uncensored) language. Her prose is a sheer joy for anyone who loves the Russian language. And the interviews are fairly short - with interspersed bits of what must be excerpts from real stories of hers - so they are easy to read in small bits before bed.