9780946162659 - the galosh: selected comic short stories von zoschenko, mikhail (6 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Used Good. UK Edition. Light wear to cover, slightly bumped corners, pages clean and unmarked. Firefly sells new and used books through our store front. We try to add a detailed description to as many titles as possible. If you have questions regarding this title, please contact us. Photos available on request.…

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

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Zustand: Used - Very Good. VG paperback. Translated from Russian by Jeremy Hicks, with introduction & notes. A clean, tidy copy in firm binding.

hardcover. Zustand: Very Good in Wrappers. No Jacket. First Edition. London. 2000. Angel Books. 1st British Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 0946162654. Translated from the Russian by Jeremy Hicks. 208 pages. hardcover. Cover illustration: 'The tenant of the bath' by K. P. Rotov, Krokodil, 1927. Cover design by VellaDesign. keywords: Europe Russia Literature Translated World Literature. DESCRIPTION - In his prime, satirist Mikhail Zoschenko was more widely read in the Soviet Union than either Pasternak or Solzhenitsyn. His stories give expression to the bewildered experience of the ordinary Soviet citizen struggling to survive in the 1920s and '30s, beset by an acute housing short-age, ubiquitous theft and corruption, and the impenetrable new ideological language of the Soviet state. Written in the semi-educated talk of the man or woman on the street, these stories enshrine one of the greatest achievements of the people of the Soviet Union - their gallows humor. Housing block tenants who reject electricity because it illuminates their squalor too harshly, a young couple who live in a bathroom, a railway-line manager making a speech against bribery who accidentally mentions his own affinity for kickbacks - in all of Zoschenko's characters, petty materialism is balanced with a poignant faith in the revolutionary project. Zoschenko, the self-described 'temporary substitute for the proletarian writer,' combines wicked satire and an earthy empathy with a brilliance that places him squarely in the classic Russian comic tradition. Jeremy Hicks's translation of THE GALOSH brings together sixty five of Zoschenko's finest short stories - bringing the choice writings of perhaps Soviet Russia's most humorous and moving writer to American readers for the first time. 'You have all the qualities of a satirist, a very acute sense of irony accompanied by lyricism in an extremely original way. I don't know of such a combination anywhere else in literature' - Maxim Gorky to Mikhail Zoschenko, September 15, 1930. inventory #41673. …

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