What the Emperor Cannot Do
            
                Glas New Russian Writing
Publisher: Glas New Russian Writing; GLAS New Russian Writing
Published: 2012
Language: eng
Number of pages: 174
ISBN-13: 9785717200943
Description: Styled as Oriental tales, these parables are unexpected, exciting, colorful, and tremendously readable. Vlas Doroshevich could not stand tyranny in any form and in his tales he availed himself of complete freedom to mock, to despise, and to accuse the authorities for their wickedness, hypocrisy, and stupidity. These tales could be written by and for rebellious "anti-establishment" youth of today. Doroshevich's works were often banned during the tsarist times and then finally banned completely under the Bolsheviks. This great Russian writer, who was a friend of Anton Chekhov, is only now being resurrected from oblivion. This is the first English translation of his tales.--Publisher's description.