50 Writers : : An Anthology of 20th Century Russian Short Stories.

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• MitwirkendeR: Aksyonov, Vasily,; Andreyev, Leonid,; Averchenko, Arkady,; Babel, Isaac,; Brougher, Valentina,; Buida, Yury,; Bulgakov, Mikhail,; Bunin, Ivan,; Daniel, Yuli,; Dombrovsky, Yury,; Dovlatov, Sergei,; Ermakov, Oleg,; Erofeyev, Victor,; Gorenshtein, Fridrikh,; Guro, Elena,; Iskander, Fazil,; Ivanov, Vsevolod,; Kazakov, Yury,; Kharms, Daniil,; Krzhizhanovsky, Sigizmund,; Kuprin, Aleksander,; Levkin, Andrei,; Lipovetsky, Mark,; Lunts, Lev,; Makanin, Vladimir,; Mamleyev, Yury,; Miller, Frank,; Nabokov, Vladimir,; Okudzhava, Bulat,; Pelevin, Viktor,; Petrushevskaya, Lyudmila,; Platonov, Andrei,; Polyanskaya, Irina,; Remizov, Aleksei,; Rubinshtein, Lev,; Shalamov, Varlam,; Sholokhov, Mikhail,; Shukshin, Vasily,; Sinyavsky, Andrei,; Sologub, Fyodor,; Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr,; Sorokin, Vladimir,; Teffi, Nadezhda,; Tendryakov, Vladimir,; Tolstaya, Tatiana,; Tolstoy, Aleksei,; Tuchkov, Vladimir,; Ulitskaya, Lyudmila,; Vishnevetskaya, Marina,; Vorobyov, Konstantin,; Yuzefovich, Leonid,; Zamyatin, Evgeny,; Zoshchenko, Mikhail,
• Place / Publishing House: Boston, MA : : Academic Studies Press, , [2011]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Cultural Syllabus
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (792 p.)

The largest, most comprehensive anthology of its kind, this volume brings together significant, representative stories from every decade of the twentieth century. It includes the prose of officially recognized writers and dissidents, both well-known and neglected or forgotten, plus new authors from the end of the century. The selections reflect the various literary trends and approaches to depicting reality in this era: traditional realism, modernism, socialist realism, and post-modernism. Taken as a whole, the stories capture every major aspect of Russian life, history and culture in the twentieth century. The rich array of themes and styles will be of tremendous interest to students and readers who want to learn about Russia through the engaging genre of the short story.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- GLOSSARY -- INTRODUCTION -- ONCE UPON A TIME -- THE INVOKER OF THE BEAST -- GAMBRINUS -- THE LITTLE DEVIL -- THUS LIFE PASSES -- FOUR PEOPLE -- SCENES FROM THE LIFE OF THE WORKER PANTELEI GRYMZIN -- BLACK IRIS -- THE RED CROWN -- BLACK MAGIC -- THE FEMALE FISH (Deacon Vasily’s Story) -- GEDALI -- FAMILY MAN -- OUTGOING PAPER NUMBER 27 -- THE GARDENER OF THE EMIR OF BUKHARA -- THE VIPER (A Long Story about One Girl) -- THE FLOOD -- DOUBTING MAKAR -- SIX STORIES FROM INCIDENTS -- CLOUD, CASTLE, LAKE -- THE SMOKY GLASS GOBLET -- TANYA -- THE TENANTS -- EULOGY -- THE HOUSE WITH A TURRET -- “VICTORY” -- HANDS -- A GERMAN IN FELT BOOTS -- MY UNCLE OF THE HIGHEST PRINCIPLES -- CHUDIK -- I BELIEVE! -- BREAD FOR A DOG -- YOU CRIED BITTERLY IN YOUR SLEEP -- LITTLE ARM, LEG, CUCUMBER . . . -- MY OLDER COUSIN -- GIRL OF MY DREAMS -- THE FAKIR -- GALOSHES -- SURREALISM IN A PROLETARIAN DISTRICT -- PASSING THROUGH -- THE YOUNG -- BUTTERFLY. 1987 -- THE LAST WAR STORY -- A BRIEF HISTORY OF PAINTBALL IN MOSCOW -- THE QUEEN OF SPADES -- MORE AND MORE ANGELS -- THE SAMURAI’S DREAM -- CURRENCY -- SNOW FALLS EVER SO QUIETLY -- TEACHERS WITHOUT PUPILS, or FROM UNDER THE RUBBLE -- THE LORD OF THE STEPPES -- NEVER -- EXPERIENCE IN DEMONSTRATING MOURNING -- THE DUMP