The galosh
Subtitle: and other stories
By: Mikhail Zoshchenko ; translated from the Russian with an introduction by Jeremy Hicks
Publisher: Overlook Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Woodstock, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9781585676316
Subjects: Russians -- Soviet Union -- Fiction; Soviet Union -- Social conditions -- 1917-1945 -- Fiction; Soviet Union -- Intellectual life -- 1917-1970 -- Fiction; Soviet Union -- Economic conditions -- 1917-1945 -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction
Work titles: Short stories.
Description: Though little known to English readers, Zoshchenko was one of the most popular writers in early Soviet Russiaa̮ time when, as Hicks explains in a useful introduction to this collection of brief comic tales, satire was not yet prohibited by the authorities. Describing himself as "a temporary substitute for the proletarian writer," Zoshchenko wrote in a deliberately simple style, filling his pages with corrupt officials, petty thieves, and confused bureaucrats.
Notes: Originally published: London : Angel, 2000

Includes bibliographical references (p. [204]-208)