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This anthology encapsulates a best of 20th-century Russian literature, and is designed as a messenger to Professor George Gibian's "The Portable 19th-century Russian Reader". Clarence Brown selects and introduces extracts from a best prose, communication and play - from a voices of series and fight to a anguished voices of disunion and persecution.
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- Amazon Sales Rank: #1249951 in Books
- Published on: 1993-08-01
- Original language: Russian
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 640 pages
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Language Notes
Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Russian
About a Author
Clarence Brown is an acclaimed translator and highbrow of analogous novel during Princeton University. He is a translator of a Penguin Classics book of We by Yevgeny Zamyatin.
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The other examination (by a reader from New Orleans) appears to impute to a 19th-century volume, not to this a 20th-century volume. Here's a essence list for THIS volume, copied-and-pasted from elsewhere...
"Alyosha a Pot", Leo Tolstoy
"The Bishop", Anton Chekhov
"Recollections of Leo Tolstoy", Maxim Gorky
"Light Breathing", Ivan Bunin
"Time", Nadezhda Teffi
"A Girl Was Singing" "The Stranger", Alexander Blok
from "Petersburg", Andrei Bely
"The Cave", Evgeni Zamyatin
"Nikolai", Velimir Khlebnikov
"Three Things in this World He Loved" "We're No Good during Saying Good-bye" "Dante" "When a Man Dies", "Courage", Anna Akhmatova
"The Potudan River", Andrei Platonov
"Varykino" "Hamlet" "March", Boris Pasternak
"Theodosia" "The Admiralty" "The Thread of Gold Cordial Flowed" "Leningrad" "O Lord, Help Me to Live
Through this Night" "The Last Supper", Osip Mandelstam
from "The Master and Margarita", Mikhail Bulgakov
"My First Goose" "How It was Done in Odessa" My First Fee", Isaac Babel
"Bees and People" from "Before Sunrise", Mikhail Zoshchenko
"Envy", Yuri Olesha
"The Return of Chorb" "The Visit to a Museum", Vladimir Nabokov
"A May Night" "Last Letter", Nadezhda Mandelstam
"Anecdotes About Pushkin's Life" "The Connection", Daniil Kharms
"Prosthetic Appliances" "A Child's Drawings" "Lend-Lease", Varlam Shalamov
"Matryona's Home", Alexander Solzhenitsyn
"Pkhentz", Andrei Sinyavsky
"Adam and Eve", Yuri Kazakov
from "Faithful Ruslan", Georgi Vladimov
"A Circle of Friends", Vladimir Voinovich
from "A School for Fools", Sasha Sokolov
20 of 21 people found a following examination helpful.
How it was Done in Russia
By Alexander Schulman
I bought this book for a march in Russian brief fiction, and dual years after we still find myself entrance behind to it. There are many good examples of Soviet and pre-Soviet essay in this anthology, a finish content of Olesha's romance "Envy", as good as some excerpts from longer works like "The Master and Margarita" and "Dr. Zhivago".
True to a Russian literary tradition, many of a pieces occupy a weird liminal space between impossibly humorous and impossibly disturbing. The author I'm many beholden for carrying been introduced to by this volume is Danill Kharms, an absurdist author from a early Soviet era. His "Anecdotes about Pushkin's Life" mocks a kind of favourite ceremony prevelant in a literary universe by presenting a array of absurd one-paragraph stories that make small to no sense, yet are utterly funny.
Other highlights in this book embody Zamayatin's (authour of "We") "The Cave", Babel's "My First Goose", Platonov's "The Potudan River", Zoshchenko's official story "Bees and People", Gorky's "Recollections of Leo Tolstoy", and Shalamov's Gulag fear story "Lend Lease".
This book is good value getting, and you'll find yourself returning to it over and over again, any time anticipating something new.
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20th Century Russian Reader
By James Killgo
I used this collection for a category in Russian Fiction. Generally it is a excellent collection of decent translations, yet we could wish for more. It should be noted, a good understanding of these texts can be found online, for free. But, for a meddlesome amateur in Russian Literature, this will keep we busy, yet we cite progressing Russian Lit personally.
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