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WRITERS:
AN ANTHOLOGY OF 20TH CENTURY RUSSIAN SHORT
STORIES
Selected, with an Introduction by Mark Lipovetsky and Valentina Brougher
Translated and annotated by Valentina Brougher and Frank Miller, with
Mark Lipovetsky
Available in paper:
ISBN 978-1-936235-22-3
$29.00
Academic Studies Press
http://www.academicstudiespress.com/SlavicNew.aspx
Available in paper: ISBN 978-1-936235-22-3
$29.00
The largest, most comprehensive anthology of its kind, this volume brings together significant, representative stories from every decade of the 20th century. It includes
the prose of officially recognized writers and dissidents, both well-known and neglected or forgotten, plus new authors from the end of the 20th century. The selections reflect the various literary trends and approaches to depicting reality in the 20th century:
traditional realism, modernism, socialist realism, and post-modernism. Taken as a whole, the stories capture every major aspect of Russian life, history and culture in the 20th century. The rich array of themes and styles will be of tremendous interest to
students and readers who want to learn about Russia through the engaging genre of the short story.
Review:
"I've seen many English-language anthologies of Russian literature, but this is the first one that I want to give to all my non-specialist friends, so that they can
finally understand what is so wonderful about modern Russian literature."
—Eliot Borenstein, Professor of Russian & Slavic Studies at NYU
"This selection of mainly newly translated stories from the 20th century includes both well-known writers and new voices. It eschews traditional selections from the
former category and presents startling writings from the latter. As the editors-translators put it themselves in their lucid introduction, these stories together form a "mega-novel" about Russia of the previous century from its first revolution to post-perestoika
times."
—Irene Masing-Delic, Professor of Russian Studies at Ohio State University
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgments 13
Glossary 18
Introduction 21
1. LEONID ANDREYEV
Once Upon a Time 43
2. FYODOR SOLOGUB
The Invoker of the Beast 65
3. ALEKSANDR KUPRIN
Gambrinus 73
4. ALEKSEI REMIZOV
The Little Devil 100
5. ELENA GURO
Thus Life Passes 131
6. ARKADY AVERCHENKO
Four People 145
Scenes from the Life of the Worker Pantelei Grymzin 152
7. NADEZHDA TEFFI
Black Iris 154
8. MIKHAIL BULGAKOV
The Red Crown 158
9. MIKHAIL ZOSHCHENKO
Black Magic 165
The Female Fish 177
10. ISAAC BABEL
Gedali 185
The Rabbi 188
The Rabbi’s Son 190
11. MIKHAIL SHOLOKHOV
Family Man 193
12. LEV LUNTS
Outgoing Paper No. 27 200
13. VSEVOLOD IVANOV
The Gardener of the Emir of Bukhara 209
14. ALEKSEI TOLSTOY
The Viper 231
15. EVGENY ZAMYATIN
The Flood 269
16. ANDREI PLATONOV
Doubting Makar 297
17. DANIIL KHARMS
Blue Notebook Number 10 315
Old Women Tumbling Out 315
Kushakov the Carpenter 316
A Dream 317
The Start of a Very Nice Summer Day 318
The Lynching 318
18. VLADIMIR NABOKOV
Lake, Cloud, Tower 320
19. SIGIZMUND KRZHIZHANOVSKY
The Smoky Glass Goblet 328
20. IVAN BUNIN
Tanya 333
21. ANDREI SINYAVSKY
The Tenants 351
22. VARLAM SHALAMOV
Eulogy 365
23. FRIDRIKH GORENSHTEIN
The House with a Turret 380
24. VASILY AKSYONOV
“Victory” 405
25. YULI DANIEL
Hands 412
26. KONSTANTIN VOROBYOV
A German in Felt Boots 417
27. FAZIL ISKANDER
My Uncle of the Highest Principles 430
28. VASILY SHUKSHIN
Chudik 445
I Believe! 455
29. VLADIMIR TENDRYAKOV
Bread for a Dog 466
30. YURY KAZAKOV
You Cried Bitterly in Your Sleep 487
31. YURY DOMBROVSKY
Little Arm, Leg, Cucumber . . . 505
32. SERGEI DOVLATOV
My Older Cousin 523
33. BULAT OKUDZHAVA
Girl of My Dreams 542
34. TATIANA TOLSTAYA
The Fakir 555
35. VIKTOR EROFEYEV
Galoshes 576
36. VLADIMIR MAKANIN
Surrealism in a Proletarian District 585
37. VLADIMIR SOROKIN
Passing Through 604
38. ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN
The Young 611
39. LEONID YUZEFOVICH
Butterfly. 1987 624
40. OLEG ERMAKOV
The Last War Story 646
41. VIKTOR PELEVIN
A Short History of Paint-ball in Moscow 676
42. LYUDMILA ULITSKAYA
The Queen of Spades 694
43. YURY BUIDA
More and More Angels 723
The Samurai’s Dream 726
44. YURY MAMLEYEV
Currency 728
45. IRINA POLYANSKAYA
Snow Falls Ever So Quietly 737
46. LEV RUBINSHTEIN
Teachers without Pupils, or from under the Rubble 741
Into the Mausoleum of Thine 744
47. VLADIMIR TUCHKOV
The Lord of the Steppes 751
48. LYUDMILA PETRUSHEVSKAYA
Never 757
49. MARINA VISHNEVETSKAYA
Experience in Demonstrating Mourning 766
50. ANDREI LEVKIN
The Dump 774