Bai Ganyo : incredible tales of a modern Bulgarian / Aleko Konstantinov ; edited by Victor A. Friedman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

1863-1897. Konstantinov.

Contributor:

Friedman, Victor A.

Aleko.

Standardized Title:

Baĭ Ganʹo. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anecdotes--Bulgaria.

Anecdotes.

Fiction.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (174 p.)

Edition:

1版.

Place of Publication:

Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A comic classic of world literature, Aleko Konstantinov's 1895 novel Bai Ganyo follows the misadventures of rose-oil salesman Ganyo Balkanski ("Bai" is a Bulgarian title of intimate respect) as he travels in Europe. Unkempt but endearing, Bai Ganyo blusters his way through refined society in Vienna, Dresden, and St. Petersburg with an eye peeled for pickpockets and a free lunch. Konstantinov's satire turns darker when Bai Ganyo returns home--bullying, bribing, and rigging elections in Bulgaria, a new country that had recently emerged piecemeal from the Ottoman Empire with the help of Czarist Russia. Bai Ganyo has been translated into most European languages, but now Victor Friedman and his fellow translators have finally brought this Balkan masterpiece to English-speaking readers, accompanied by a helpful introduction, glossary, and notes.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Preface

A Note on Transliteration

Introduction

Part One

Bai Ganyo Starts Out for Europe

1. Bai Ganyo Sets Off

2. Bai Ganyo at the Opera

3. Bai Ganyo at the Baths

4. Bai Ganyo in Dresden

5. Bai Ganyo at the Prague Exhibition

6. Bai Ganyo at Jirechek's

7. Bai Ganyo Goes Visiting

8. Bai Ganyo in Switzerland

9. Bai Ganyo in Russia

Part Two

10. Bai Ganyo Returns from Europe

11. Bai Ganyo Does Elections

12. Bai Ganyo the Journalist

13. Bai Ganyo at the Palace

14. Bai Ganyo in the Delegation

15. Bai Ganyo in the Opposition? Don't You Believe It!

16. The Temperance Society

17. Letter from Bai Ganyo to Konstantin Velichkov

18. From the Correspondence of Bai Ganyo Balkanski

Glossary.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

9786612555299

9781282555297

1282555294

9780299236939

0299236935

OCLC:

647900971