Author: William Russell (LL. D. Historical Writer.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
Sentimental Tales, in Two Volumes
Author: William Russell (LL. D. Historical Writer.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
Sentimental Tales
Author: Mikhail ZoshchenkoPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231545150
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
“Dralyuk’s new translation of Sentimental Tales, a collection of Zoshchenko’s stories from the 1920s, is a delight that brings the author’s wit to life.”—The Economist Mikhail Zoshchenko’s Sentimental Tales are satirical portraits of small-town characters on the fringes of Soviet society in the first decade of Bolshevik rule. The tales are narrated by one Kolenkorov, a writer not very good at his job, who takes credit for editing the tales in a series of comic prefaces. Yet beneath Kolenkorov’s intrusive narration and sublime blathering, the stories are genuinely moving. They tell tales of unrequited love and amorous misadventures among down-on-their-luck musicians, provincial damsels, aspiring poets, and liberal aristocrats hopelessly out of place in the new Russia, against a backdrop of overcrowded apartments, scheming, and daydreaming. Zoshchenko’s deadpan style and sly ventriloquy mask a biting critique of Soviet life—and perhaps life in general. An original perspective on Soviet society in the 1920s and simply uproariously funny, Sentimental Tales at last shows Anglophone readers why Zoshchenko is considered among the greatest humorists of the Soviet era. “A book that would make Gogol guffaw.”—Kirkus Reviews “If you find Chekhov a bit tame and want a more bite to your fiction, then you need a dose of Zoshchenko, the premier Russian satirist of the twentieth century . . . Snap up this thin volume and enjoy.”—Russian Life “Mikhail Zoshchenko masterfully exhibits a playful seriousness. . . . Juxtaposing joyful wit with the bleakness of Soviet Russia, Sentimental Tales is a potent antidote for Russian literature’s dour reputation.”—Foreword Reviews “Superb.”—Los Angeles Review of Books
Sentimental Tales
Author: William RussellNervous People, and Other Satires
Author: Mikhail ZoshchenkoPublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253201928
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
Among the most popular writers of the early Soviet period was the satirist Mikhail Zoshchenko, whose career spanned nearly four decades and who was as beloved by ordinary people as he was admired by the elite. His most popular pieces, often appearing in newspapers, were "short-short stories" written in a slangy, colloquial style. Typical targets of his satire are the Soviet bureaucracy, crowded conditions in communal apartments, marital infidelities and the rapid turnover in marriage partners, and what a disdainful Soviet judge in one of the sketches dismisses as "the petty-bourgeois mode of life, with its adulterous episodes, lying, and similar nonsense." Farcical complications, satiric understatement, humorous anachronisms, and an ironic contrast between high-flown sentiments and the down-to-earth reality of mercenary instincts were his favorite devices. Zoshchenko had an uncanny knack for eluding Soviet censorship (one of the sketches even touches humorously on the dangerous topic of party purges) and his work as a result offers us a marvelous window on life in Russia during the twenties and thirties.
A Dictionary of the Anonymous and Pseudonymous Literature of Great Britain...
Author: Samuel HalkettThe Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art
Author: Five Short Stories. (Le Curé de Tours. - Jésus-Christ en Flandres. - Le Chef-d'oeuvre Inconnu. - L'Auberge Rouge. - La Messe D'Athée)
Author: Honoré de BalzacPublisher:
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Category : French literature
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
The Athenaeum
Author: Claude Mercoeur’s Reflection and Other Strange Stories
Author: Frédéric BoutetPublisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 147942594X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 203
Book Description
This volume is the third of a set of three showcasing the work of Frédéric Boutet, the other two volumes being The Antisocial Man and Other Strange Stories and The Voyage of Julius Pingouin and Other Strange Stories. Viewed as an ensemble, the collections illustrate the range and development of Boutet's early work, and provide a few representative samples of its later evolution. Here are a baker's dozen of supernatural, horror, and fantasy tales from the early twentieth century, edited and translated by the well-known science fiction writer, Brian Stableford, including the novella, "When We Have Passed On," and the highly original short novel, "Claude Mercoeur's Reflection," both of them significant and highly readable works of French fantastic literature.
The Voyage of Julius Pingouin and Other Strange Stories
Author: Frédéric BoutetPublisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 1479426016
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
This volume is the second of a set of three showcasing the work of Frédéric Boutet, the other two volumes being The Antisocial Man and Other Strange Stories, and Claude Mercoeur's Reflection and Other Strange Stories. Viewed as an ensemble, these collections illustrate the range and development of Boutet's early work, and provide a few representative samples of its later evolution. Although several stories by Boutet were translated into English in the 1920s, especially in America, they were selected from his later works, when he was mostly writing sentimental stories and crime fiction for popular magazines; no examples of his early work, most of which consisted of offbeat supernatural fiction, have previously been rendered into English. These sixteen tales of horror and fantasy will hopefully serve to introduce the work of a highly distinctive writer of weird and baroque fiction to a new audience.