50 writers : an anthology of 20th century Russian short stories / selected, with an introduction, by Mark Lipovetsky and Valentina Brougher ; translated and annotated by Valentina Brougher and Frank Miller, with Mark Lipovetsky.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lipovet︠s︡kiĭ, M. N. (Mark Naumovich)

Brougher, Valentina G.

Miller, Frank J. (Frank Joseph), 1940-2016.

Series:

Cultural syllabus.

Cultural syllabus

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Short stories, Russian--Translations into English.

Short stories, Russian.

Russian fiction--20th century--Translations into English.

Russian fiction.

Physical Description:

788 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Boston : Academic Studies Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The largest, most comprehensive anthology of its kind, this volume brings together significant, representative stories from every decade of the twentieth century. It includes the prose of officially recognized writers and dissidents, both well-known and neglected or forgotten, plus new authors from the end of the century. The selections reflect the various literary trends and approaches to depicting reality in this era: traditional realism, modernism, socialist realism, and post-modernism. Taken as a whole, the stories capture every major aspect of Russian life, history and culture in the twentieth century. The rich array of themes and styles will be of tremendous interest to students and readers who want to learn about Russia through the engaging genre of the short story.

Contents:

Frontmatter

TABLE OF CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

GLOSSARY

INTRODUCTION

ONCE UPON A TIME / Andreyev, Leonid

THE INVOKER OF THE BEAST / Sologub, Fyodor

GAMBRINUS / Kuprin, Aleksander

THE LITTLE DEVIL / Remizov, Aleksei

THUS LIFE PASSES / Guro, Elena

FOUR PEOPLE / Averchenko, Arkady

SCENES FROM THE LIFE OF THE WORKER PANTELEI GRYMZIN / Averchenko, Arkady

BLACK IRIS / Teffi, Nadezhda

THE RED CROWN / Bulgakov, Mikhail

BLACK MAGIC / Zoshchenko, Mikhail

THE FEMALE FISH (Deacon Vasily's Story) / Zoshchenko, Mikhail

GEDALI / Babel, Isaac

FAMILY MAN / Sholokhov, Mikhail

OUTGOING PAPER NUMBER 27 / Lunts, Lev

THE GARDENER OF THE EMIR OF BUKHARA / Ivanov, Vsevolod

THE VIPER (A Long Story about One Girl) / Tolstoy, Aleksei

THE FLOOD / Zamyatin, Evgeny

DOUBTING MAKAR / Platonov, Andrei

SIX STORIES FROM INCIDENTS / Kharms, Daniil

CLOUD, CASTLE, LAKE / Nabokov, Vladimir

THE SMOKY GLASS GOBLET / Krzhizhanovsky, Sigizmund

TANYA / Bunin, Ivan

THE TENANTS / Sinyavsky, Andrei

EULOGY / Shalamov, Varlam

THE HOUSE WITH A TURRET / Gorenshtein, Fridrikh

"VICTORY" / Aksyonov, Vasily

HANDS / Daniel, Yuli

A GERMAN IN FELT BOOTS / Vorobyov, Konstantin

MY UNCLE OF THE HIGHEST PRINCIPLES / Iskander, Fazil

CHUDIK / Shukshin, Vasily

I BELIEVE! / Shukshin, Vasily

BREAD FOR A DOG / Tendryakov, Vladimir

YOU CRIED BITTERLY IN YOUR SLEEP / Kazakov, Yury

LITTLE ARM, LEG, CUCUMBER . . . / Dombrovsky, Yury

MY OLDER COUSIN / Dovlatov, Sergei

GIRL OF MY DREAMS / Okudzhava, Bulat

THE FAKIR / Tolstaya, Tatiana

GALOSHES / Erofeyev, Victor

SURREALISM IN A PROLETARIAN DISTRICT / Makanin, Vladimir

PASSING THROUGH / Sorokin, Vladimir

THE YOUNG / Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr

BUTTERFLY. 1987 / Yuzefovich, Leonid

THE LAST WAR STORY / Ermakov, Oleg

A BRIEF HISTORY OF PAINTBALL IN MOSCOW / Pelevin, Viktor

THE QUEEN OF SPADES / Ulitskaya, Lyudmila

MORE AND MORE ANGELS / Buida, Yury

THE SAMURAI'S DREAM / Buida, Yury

CURRENCY / Mamleyev, Yury

SNOW FALLS EVER SO QUIETLY / Polyanskaya, Irina

TEACHERS WITHOUT PUPILS, or FROM UNDER THE RUBBLE / Rubinshtein, Lev

THE LORD OF THE STEPPES / Tuchkov, Vladimir

NEVER / Petrushevskaya, Lyudmila

EXPERIENCE IN DEMONSTRATING MOURNING / Vishnevetskaya, Marina

THE DUMP / Levkin, Andrei

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

9781936235223

1936235226

9781618110107

1618110101

OCLC:

797833282