Title: Russian short stories from Pushkin to Buida /
Authors: Chandler, Robert, 1953-
Publisher: Penguin Books,
Year: 2005
Subjects: Short stories, Russian.; Short stories, Russian Translations into English.
Abstract: "This collection includes not only well-known classics but also modern masterpieces, many of them previously censored. There are stories by acknowledged giants - Gogol, Tolstoy, Chekhov and Solzhenitsyn - and by equally great writers such as Platonov who have only recently become known to the English-speaking world. Some stories are tragic, but the volume also includes a great deal of comedy - from Pushkin's subtle wit to Kharms's dark absurdism, from Dostoyevsky's graveyard humour to Teffi's subtle evocations of human stupidity and Zoshchenko's satirical vignettes of everyday life in the decade after the 1917 Revolution." "This new collection of translations includes works recently rediscovered in Russia. The introduction gives a vivid insight into the history of the Russian short story, while the work of every author is preceded by an individual introduction. This edition also includes notes and a chronology."--Jacket.
Contents: The queen of spades / Aleksandr Pushkin -- The fatalist / Mikhail Lermontov -- The greatcoat / Nikolay Gogol -- The knocking / Ivan Turgenev -- Bobok / Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- God sees the truth, but waits / Count Lev Tolstoy -- The steel flea / Nikolay Leskov -- In the cart / Anton Chekhov -- The monster / Lidiya Zinovyeva-Annibal -- The gentleman from San Francisco ; In Paris / Ivan Bunin -- Love ; A family journey / Teffi -- The lion / Yevgeny Zamyatin -- Quadraturin / Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky -- Lalla's interests / Vera Inber -- The embroidered towel / Mikhail Bulgakov -- My first goose ; The death of Dolgushov ; Salt / Isaak Babel -- Electification ; Pelageya ; The bathhouse ; The crisis ; The galosh ; The hat / Mikhail Zoshchenko -- Medical auxiliary ; The father ; Please do / Leonid Dobychin -- The third son ; The return / Andrey Platonov -- The old woman / Daniil Kharms -- Through the snow ; Berries ; The snake charmer ; Duck / Varlam Shalamov -- What a pity / Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -- In the autumn / Vasily Shukshin -- Red caviar sandwiches / Asar Eppel -- The officer's belt / Sergei Dovlatov -- Sindbad the Sailr / Yury Buida.