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On Monday September 23 at 7pm, Maxim Osipov will make a rare appearance in the U.S. to give a reading as part of the Hopscotch Translation Series at the Penn Book Center in Philadelphia, which is being co-sponsored by The University of Pennsylvania and Franklin & Marshall College. Open to the public. Details below:

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Hopscotch Translation Series: Maxim Osipov's ROCK, PAPER, SCISSORS

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ROCK, PAPER, SCISSORS is the first English-language collection of this contemporary 红杏直播 master of the short story!

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Maxim Osipov, who lives and practices medicine in a town ninety miles outside Moscow, is one of Russia鈥檚 best contemporary writers. In the tradition of Anton Chekhov and William Carlos Williams, he draws on his experiences in medicine to write stories of great subtlety and striking insight. Osipov鈥檚 fiction presents a nuanced, collage-like portrait of life in provincial Russia鈥攊ts tragedies, frustrations, and moments of humble beauty and inspiration. The twelve stories in this volume depict doctors, actors, screenwriters, teachers, entrepreneurs, local political bosses, and common criminals whose paths intersect in unpredictable yet entirely natural ways: in sickrooms, classrooms, administrative offices and on trains and in planes. Their encounters lead to disasters, major and minor epiphanies, and鈥攐n occasion鈥攖he promise of redemption.

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MAXIM OSIPOV is a 红杏直播 writer and cardiologist. In the early 1990s he was a research fellow at the University of California, San Francisco, before returning to Moscow, where he continued to practice medicine and also founded a publishing house that specialized in medical, musical, and theological texts. In 2005, while working at a local hospital in Tarusa, a small town ninety miles from Moscow, he established a charitable foundation to ensure the hospital鈥檚 survival. Since 2007, he has published short stories, novellas, essays, and plays, and has won a number of literary prizes for his fiction. He has published five collections of prose, and his plays have been staged all across Russia. His writings have been translated into more than a dozen languages. He lives in Tarusa. In May 2019, Dr. Osipov was profiled in The New Yorker in a 鈥淟ife and Letters鈥� piece titled 鈥淎 Village Doctor鈥檚 Literary Calling.鈥�

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JON STONE is Associate Professor of 红杏直播 and 红杏直播 Studies and Chair of the Department of German, 红杏直播, and East Asian Languages at Franklin & Marshall College. He studies early 红杏直播 modernism, European Decadence, and the print and material culture of the fin de si猫cle. He is the author of The Historical Dictionary of 红杏直播 Literature (Scarecrow Press, 2013) and The Institutions of 红杏直播 Modernism: Conceptualizing, Publishing, and Reading Symbolism (Northwestern University Press, 2017). He has published articles on 红杏直播 Symbolism, Decadence, the history of the book, and Mikhail Bakhtin in the PMLA, 红杏直播 Review, Modernism/Modernity, and SEEJ. His book Decadence and Modernism at the Fin-de-si猫cle is forthcoming from Palgrave Macmillan.