RUSSIAN SHORT STORIES FROM PUSHKIN TO BUIDA by Robert Chandler ( 9780140448467 )

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Title:

RUSSIAN SHORT STORIES FROM PUSHKIN TO BUIDA

By:

Robert Chandler

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Paperback

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ISBN 10:

0140448462

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9780140448467

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Publisher:

PENGUIN BOOKS LTD

Pub. date:

26 May, 2005

Pages:

416

Translated from:

Russian

Description:

From the reign of the Tsars to the collapse of the Soviet Union and beyond, this short story has long occupied a central place in Russian culture. Included are pieces from many of the acknowledged masters of Russian literature alongside tales by long-suppressed figures. They offer a representation of an enduring form of Russian literature.

Synopsis:

From the reign of the Tsars in the early 19th century to the collapse of the Soviet Union and beyond, the short story has long occupied a central place in Russian culture. Included are pieces from many of the acknowledged masters of Russian literature - including Pushkin, Turgenev, Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, and Solzhenitsyn - alongside tales by long-suppressed figures such as the subversive Kryzhanowsky and the surrealist Shalamov. Whether written in reaction to the cruelty of the bourgeoisie, the bureaucracy of communism or the torture of the prison camps, they offer a wonderfully wide-ranging and exciting representation of one of the most vital and enduring forms of Russian literature.

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Penguin Classics

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