Sentimental Tales (Russian Library) - Softcover

Zoshchenko, Mikhail

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0231183798 ISBN 13: 9780231183796

Verlag: Columbia Univers. Press, 2018

Inhaltsangabe

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, who is anything but a model Soviet author: not only is he still attached to the era of the old regime, he is also, quite simply, not a very good writer. Shaped by Zoshchenko's masterful hands - he takes credit for editing the tales in a series of comic prefaces - Kolenkorov's prose is beautifully mangled, full of stylistic infelicities, overloaded flights of metaphor, tortured cliché, and misused bureaucratese, in the tradition of Gogol.

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Mikhail Zoshchenko (1894–1958) was a leading Soviet satirist. His stories of the 1920s made him enormously popular with readers. In 1946 he was expelled from the Soviet Writers’ Union. He never recovered from this trauma and died of heart failure in 1958.

Boris Dralyuk is the editor of 1917: Stories and Poems from the Russian Revolution (2016) and coeditor of The Penguin Book of Russian Poetry (2015).

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Columbia Univers. Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0231183798
• ISBN 13: 9780231183796
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 240
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