An Endlessly Long Spring

“An Infinitely Long Spring” is Lida Starodubtseva’s writing debut, a cycle of Karelian stories in which the author draws portraits of young women. Searching for their place in life, they seem to record what’s happening, listen to their feelings, not feeling either pain or joy or fear, watching themselves from the outside. Together, the stories form a single space where the new turns into the ancient, one life echoes in another—and this current is never interrupted. The theme of boundaries comes to the forefront: personal, political, and the border between the masculine and the feminine. In life, thinking, and writing—we meet the theme of translation and crossing boundaries everywhere: physical, territorial, and existential.

Lida Starodubtseva (born 1982) has been translating fiction for 20 years. Alongside that, she teaches and works in journalism. She was born in Karelia and lives in the Swedish province of Skåne. She studied at the universities of Petrozavodsk, Umeå, Lund, and Malmö. She directed a regular seminar on literary/artistic translation at PetrSU.

The book is written in Swedish and published in Russian in the author’s translation.