Title: The galosh
Subtitle: and other stories
First published: 2000
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.
Subjects: Fiction, Russians, Intellectual life, Economic conditions, Social conditions, Translations into English, Russian Humorous stories, Fiction, humorous, general, Fiction, short stories (single author), Soviet union, fiction
Places: Soviet Union
People: Mikhail Zoshchenko (1895-1958)
Time periods: 1917-1945, 1917-1970
LC classification: PG3476.Z7 A2 2006