Sentimental tales / Mikhail Zoshchenko ; translated by Boris Dralyuk.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zoshchenko, Mikhail, 1895-1958, author.

Contributor:

Dralyuk, Boris, translator.

Series:

Russian library.

Russian library

Standardized Title:

Short stories. Selections. English. (Dralyuk)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Zoshchenko, Mikhail, 1895-1958--Translations into English.

Zoshchenko, Mikhail.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : no art

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

Mikhail Zoshchenko's Sentimental Tales are satirical portraits of small-town characters on the fringes of Soviet society in the first decade of Bolshevik rule. The tales are narrated by one Kolenkorov, who is anything but a model Soviet author: not only is he still attached to the era of the old regime, he is also, quite simply, not a very good writer. Shaped by Zoshchenko's masterful hands-he takes credit for editing the tales in a series of comic prefaces-Kolenkorov's prose is beautifully mangled, full of stylistic infelicities, overloaded flights of metaphor, tortured cliché, and misused bureaucratese, in the tradition of Gogol.Yet beneath Kolenkorov's intrusive narration and sublime blathering, the stories are genuinely moving. They tell tales of unrequited love and amorous misadventures among down-on-their-luck musicians, provincial damsels, aspiring poets, and liberal aristocrats hopelessly out of place in the new Russia, against a backdrop of overcrowded apartments, scheming, and daydreaming. Zoshchenko's deadpan style and sly ventriloquy mask a biting critique of Soviet life-and perhaps life in general. An original perspective on Soviet society in the 1920s and simply uproariously funny, Sentimental Tales at last shows Anglophone readers why Zoshchenko is considered among the greatest humorists of the Soviet era.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

Introduction

A Note on the Text

Preface to the First Edition

Preface to the Second Edition

Preface to the Third Edition

Preface to the Fourth Edition

1. Apollo and Tamara

2. People

3. A Terrible Night

4. What the Nightingale Sang

5. A Merry Adventure

6. Lilacs in Bloom

Notes

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 16. Mai 2019)

Description based on print record.

ISBN:

9780231545150

0231545150

OCLC:

1041854299