Russian short stories from Pushkin to Buida
By: edited and translated by Robert Chandler
Contributors: Chandler, Robert, 1953-
Series: Penguin classics
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 2005
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 396
Subjects: Short stories, Russian
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [xv]-xvii)