| Description |
1 online resource (788 pages) |
| Series |
Cultural syllabus |
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Cultural syllabus.
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| Contents |
Once Upon a Time / Leonid Andreyev -- The Invoker of the Beast / Fyodor Sologub -- Gambrinus / Aleksandr Kuprin -- The Little Devil / Aleksei Remizov -- Thus Life Passes / Elena Guro -- Four People / Arkady Averchenko -- Scenes from the Life of the Worker Pantelei Grymzin / Arkady Averchenko -- Black Iris / Nadezhda Teffi -- The Red Crown / Mikhail Bulgakov -- Black Magic / Mikhail Zoshchenko -- The Female Fish / Mikhail Zoshchenko -- Gedali / Isaac Babel -- The Rabbi / Isaac Babel -- The Rabbi's Son / Isaac Babel -- Family Man / Mikhail Sholokhov -- Outgoing Paper No 27 / Lev Lunts -- The Gardener of the Emir of Bukhara / Vsevolod Ivanov -- The Viper / Aleksei Tolstoy -- The Flood / Evgeny Zamyatin -- Doubting Makar / Andrei Platonov -- Blue Notebook Number 10 / Daniil Kharms -- Old Women Tumbling Out / Daniil Kharms -- Kushakov the Carpenter / Daniil Kharms -- A Dream / Daniil Kharms -- The Start of a Very Nice Summer Day / Daniil Kharms -- The Lynching / Daniil Kharms -- Lake, Cloud, Tower / Vladimir Nabokov -- The Smoky Glass Goblet / Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky -- Tanya / Ivan Bunin -- The Tenants / Andrei Sinyavsky -- Eulogy / Varlam Shalamov -- The House with a Turret / Fridrikh Gorenshtein -- "Victory" / Vasily Aksyonov -- Hands / Yuli Daniel -- A German in Felt Boots / Konstantin Vorobyov -- My Uncle of the Highest Principles / Fazil Iskander -- Chudik / Vasily Shukshin -- I Believe! / Vasily Shukshin -- Bread for a Dog / Vladimir Tendryakov -- You Cried Bitterly in Your Sleep / Yury Kazakov -- Little Arm, Leg, Cucumber ... / Yury Dombrovsky -- My Older Cousin / Sergei Dovlatov -- Girl of My Dreams / Bulat Okudzhava -- The Fakir / Tatiana Tolstaya -- Galoshes / Viktor Erofeyev -- Surrealism in a Proletarian District / Vladimir Makanin -- Passing Through / Vladimir Sorokin -- The Young / Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -- Butterfly, 1987 / Leonid Yuzefovich -- The Last War Story / Oleg Ermakov -- A Short History of Paint-ball in Moscow / Viktor Pelevin -- The Queen of Spades / Lyudmila Ulitskaya -- More and More Angels / Yury Buida -- The Samurai's Dream / Yury Buida -- Currency / Yury Mamleyev -- Snow Falls Ever So Quietly / Irina Polyanskaya -- Teahers without Pupils, or from under the rubble / Lev Rubinshtein -- Into the Mausoleum of Thine / Lev Rubinshtein -- The Lord of the Steppes / Vladimir Tuchkov -- Never / Lyudmila Petrushevskaya -- Experience in Demonstrating Mourning / Marina Vishnevetskaya -- The Dump / Andrei Levkin |
| Summary |
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 |
| Analysis |
A Tolstoy |
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Babel |
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Bulgakov |
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Bunin |
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Dovlatov |
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Eastern Europe |
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Kharms |
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Nabokov |
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Platonov |
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Russia |
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Solzhenitsyn |
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Sorokin |
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Zamyatin |
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course reader |
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culture |
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literary trends |
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literature |
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modernisms |
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political dissidents |
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postmodernism |
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short stories |
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socialist realism |
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style |
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translated fiction |
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writing |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
In English |
| Subject |
Short stories, Russian -- Translations into English
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Russian fiction -- 20th century -- Translations into English
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FICTION -- General.
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Russian fiction
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Short stories, Russian
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| Genre/Form |
Translations
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Lipovet︠s︡kiĭ, M. N. (Mark Naumovich)
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Brougher, Valentina G.
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Miller, Frank J. (Frank Joseph), 1940-2016
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| ISBN |
9781618110107 |
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1618110101 |
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1306152860 |
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9781306152860 |
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1936235145 |
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9781936235148 |
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1936235226 |
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9781936235223 |
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