Russian Émigré Short Stories from Bunin to Yanovsky

Russian Émigré Short Stories from Bunin to Yanovsky
Title Russian Émigré Short Stories from Bunin to Yanovsky PDF eBook
Author Bryan Karetnyk
Publisher Penguin UK
Pages 536
Release 2017-04-27
Genre Fiction
ISBN 024119783X

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2018 READ RUSSIA PRIZE Imagine that many of Russia's greatest writers of the twentieth century were entirely unknown in the West, and only recently discovered in Russia itself. Strange as it may seem, it is in fact true, and their rediscovery is setting the literary world alight. Names such as Gaito Gazdanov and Vasily Yanovsky have excited great interest in Russia, and with stories of gambling, drug abuse, love, death, suicide, madness, espionage, glittering high society and the seedy underworld of Europe's capitals, their appeal is extremely broad. Many of these writers' works are only now being published in Russia for the first time, alongside those of leading contemporary authors - and to great critical acclaim. And we aren't just talking about two or three obscure authors; there are, quite literally, dozens of them.

Russian Émigré Short Stories from Bunin to Yanovsky

Russian Émigré Short Stories from Bunin to Yanovsky
Title Russian Émigré Short Stories from Bunin to Yanovsky PDF eBook
Author Bryan Karetnyk
Publisher Penguin Classics
Pages 464
Release 2017-04-27
Genre
ISBN 9780241310908

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Fleeing Russia amid the chaos of the 1917 revolution and subsequent Civil War, many writers went on to settle in Paris, Berlin and elsewhere. In exile, they worked as taxi drivers, labourers and film extras, and wrote some of the most brilliant and imaginative works of Russian literature. This new collection includes stories by the most famous �migr� writers, Vladimir Nabokov and Ivan Bunin, and introduces powerful lesser known voices, some of whom have never been available in English before. Here is Yuri Felsen's evocative, impressionistic account of a night of debauchery in Paris; Teffi's witty and timely reflections on refugee experience; and Mark Aldanov's sparkling story of an elderly astrologer who unexpectedly finds himself in Hitler's bunker in Berlin. Exploring displacement, loss and new beginnings, their short stories vividly evoke the experience of life in exile and also return obsessively to the Russia that has been left behind - whether as a beautiful dream or terrifying nightmare. By turns experimental, funny, exciting, poignant and haunting, these works reveal the full range of �migr� writing and are presented here in masterly translations by Bryan Karetnyk and others.

Russian Short Stories from Pushkin to Buida

Russian Short Stories from Pushkin to Buida
Title Russian Short Stories from Pushkin to Buida PDF eBook
Author Robert Chandler
Publisher Penguin UK
Pages 416
Release 2005-05-26
Genre Fiction
ISBN 0141910240

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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.

The Penguin Book of Russian Short Stories

The Penguin Book of Russian Short Stories
Title The Penguin Book of Russian Short Stories PDF eBook
Author David John Richards
Publisher Penguin Group
Pages 376
Release 1981
Genre Fiction
ISBN

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The stories in this anthology not only represent the highest literary quality but also typify the work of the author, making it a delightful selection of Russian prose. Twenty major Russian writers are represented in this collection, beginning with Pushkin, the founder of modern Russian literature, and concluding with contributions from such eminent modern writers as Vladimir Nabokov and Alexander Solzhenitsyn. The great novelist of the nineteenth century are included here, from Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky to Turgenev, alongside those writers who devoted their genius almost exclusively to the short story: Bunin, Babel and that master of the genre, Chekhov.

The Spectre of Alexander Wolf

The Spectre of Alexander Wolf
Title The Spectre of Alexander Wolf PDF eBook
Author Gaito Gazdanov
Publisher Pushkin Press Classics
Pages 122
Release 2013-06-18
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1782270361

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Of all my memories, of all my life's innumerable sensations, the most onerous was that of the single murder I had committed.' A man comes across a short story which recounts in minute detail his killing of a soldier, long ago - from the victim's point of view. It's a story that should not exist, and whose author can only be a dead man. So begins the strange quest for the elusive writer 'Alexander Wolf'. A singular classic, The Spectre of Alexander Wolf is a psychological thriller and existential inquiry into guilt and redemption, coincidence and fate, love and death.

Fandango and Other Stories

Fandango and Other Stories
Title Fandango and Other Stories PDF eBook
Author Bryan Karetnyk
Publisher Russian Library
Pages 312
Release 2019-12-31
Genre Literary Collections
ISBN 9780231189767

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Fandango and Other Stories presents a selection of essential short fiction by Alexander Grin, Russia's counterpart to Robert Louis Stevenson, Edgar Allan Poe, and Alexandre Dumas. Grin's ingenious plots explore conflicts of the individual and society in a romantic world populated by a cast of eccentric, cosmopolitan characters.

The Gambler

The Gambler
Title The Gambler PDF eBook
Author Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Publisher
Pages 328
Release 1923
Genre Russia
ISBN

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