Nikolai Nikolaevich and Camouflage

Yuz Aleshkovsky

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• Among contemporary Russian writers, Yuz Aleshkovsky stands out for his vivid imagination, his mixing of realism and fantasy, and his virtuosic use of ... Lees meer

The Death of Vazir-Mukhtar

Yury Tynyanov

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• The Death of Vazir-Mukhtar , a novel by Yury Tynyanov, a leading figure of the Russian formalist school, describes the final year in the life of Alexa... Lees meer

The Symphonies

Andrei Bely

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• Andrei Bely is best known for the modernist masterwork Petersburg , a paradigmatic example of how modern writers strove to evoke the fragmentation of ... Lees meer

Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow

Alexander Radishchev

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• Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow is among the most important pieces of writing to come out of Russia in the age of Catherine the Great. Alexander... Lees meer

Countries That Don't Exist

Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky

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• Almost unknown during his lifetime, Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky is now hailed as a master of Russian prose. His short stories and novels, unpublishable u... Lees meer

A Double Life

Karolina Pavlova

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• An unsung classic of nineteenth-century Russian literature, Karolina Pavlova's A Double Life alternates prose and poetry to offer a wry picture of Rus... Lees meer

Klotsvog

Margarita Khemlin

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• Klotsvog is a novel about being Jewish in the Soviet Union and the historical trauma of World War II--and it's a novel about the petty dramas and demo... Lees meer

Necropolis

Vladislav Khodasevich

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• Necropolis is an unconventional literary memoir by Vladislav Khodasevich, hailed by Vladimir Nabokov as "the greatest Russian poet of our time." In ea... Lees meer

Woe from Wit

Alexander Griboedov

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• Alexander Griboedov's Woe from Wit is one of the masterpieces of Russian drama. A verse comedy set in Moscow high society after the Napoleonic wars, i... Lees meer

Fandango and Other Stories

Alexander Grin

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• In a bucolic idyll, a terrorist agonizes over the act of violence he is about to commit. On a remote island in the South Pacific, the investigation of... Lees meer

Redemption

Friedrich Gorenstein

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• It is New Year's Eve 1945 in a small Soviet town not long liberated from German occupation. Sashenka, a headstrong and self-centered teenage girl, res... Lees meer

Between Dog and Wolf

Sasha Sokolov

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• Sasha Sokolov is one of few writers to have been praised by Vladimir Nabokov, who called his first novel, A School for Fools , "an enchanting, tragic,... Lees meer

New Russian Drama

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• New Russian Drama took shape at the turn of the new millennium--a time of turbulent social change in Russia and the former Soviet republics. Emerging ... Lees meer

The Man Who Couldn't Die

Olga Slavnikova

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• In the chaos of early-1990s Russia, the wife and stepdaughter of a paralyzed veteran conceal the Soviet Union's collapse from him in order to keep him... Lees meer

The Life Written by Himself

Avvakum Petrov

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• Moscow in the middle of the seventeenth century had a distinctly apocalyptic feel. An outbreak of the plague killed half the population. A solar eclip... Lees meer

City Folk and Country Folk

Sofia Khvoshchinskaya

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• An unsung gem of nineteenth-century Russian literature, City Folk and Country Folk is a seemingly gentle yet devastating satire of Russia's aristocrat... Lees meer

Fourteen Little Red Huts and Other Plays

Andrei Platonov

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• In this essential collection of Andrei Platonov's plays, the noted Platonov translator Robert Chandler edits and introduces The Hurdy-Gurdy (translate... Lees meer

The Little Devil and Other Stories

Alexei Remizov

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• In a dilapidated and isolated old house, something peculiar seems to happen whenever the town's bestial exterminator visits. On a seemingly bucolic co... Lees meer

Stravaging "Strange"

Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky

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• "I'm not on good terms with the present day," Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky once mused, "but posterity loves me." Virtually unknown during his lifetime and... Lees meer