Russian short stories from Pushkin to Buida

✍ Scribed by Chandler, Robert

• Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Series: Penguin classics
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

The queen of spades / Aleksandr Pushkin --
The fatalist / Mikhail Lermontov --
The greatcoat / Nikolay Gogol --
The knocking / Ivan Turgenev --
Bobok / Fyodor Dostoyevsky --
God sees the truth, but waits / Count Lev Tolstoy --
The steel flea / Nikolay Leskov --
In the cart / Anton Chekhov --
The monster / Lidiya Zinovyeva-Annibal --
The gentleman from San Francisco
In Paris / Ivan Bunin --
Love
A family journey / Teffi --
The lion / Yevgeny Zamyatin --
Quadraturin / Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky --
Lalla's interests / Vera Inber --
The embroidered towel / Mikhail Bulgakov --
My first goose
The death of Dolgushov
Salt / Isaak Babel --
Electification
Pelageya
The bathhouse
The crisis
The galosh
The hat / Mikhail Zoshchenko --
Medical auxiliary
The father
Please do / Leonid Dobychin --
The third son
The return / Andrey Platonov --
The old woman / Daniil Kharms --
Through the snow
Berries
The snake charmer
Duck / Varlam Shalamov --
What a pity / Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn --
In the autumn / Vasily Shukshin --
Red caviar sandwiches / Asar Eppel --
The officer's belt / Sergei Dovlatov --
Sindbad the Sailr / Yury Buida.