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Russian Short Stories from Pushkin to Buida

By ed. Robert Chandler

Book information

Publisher
Penguin
Year
2005
ISBN
9780141910246
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
2 MB (2034616 bytes)
Series
Penguin Modern Classics
Pages
417\0
Topic
Literature
Time added
2021-07-10 14:50:00
cultureLanguagelearnRussia

Description

From the reign of the Tsars in the early 19th century to the collapse of the Soviet Union and beyond, the short story has long occupied a central place in Russian culture. Included are pieces from many of the acknowledged masters of Russian literature - including Pushkin, Turgenev, Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, and Solzhenitsyn - alongside tales by long-suppressed figures such as the subversive Kryzhanowsky and the surrealist Shalamov. Whether written in reaction to the cruelty of the bourgeoisie, the bureaucracy of communism or the torture of the prison camps, they offer a wonderfully wide-ranging and exciting representation of one of the most vital and enduring forms of Russian literature.

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