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By Various, Robert Chandler

ISBN-10: 0140448462

ISBN-13: 9780140448467

This unique anthology of brief tales covers centuries of Russian literary culture, from the early 19th century to the cave in of the Soviet Union and past, and comprises not just famous classics but in addition sleek masterpieces—many of them formerly censored.

  • First time in Penguin Classics
  • Features an advent to the heritage of the Russian brief tale, prefaces to the person writers, chronology, explanatory notes, and proposals for additional reading

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In society she played the most pitiable of roles. Everyone knew her and no one noticed her; at balls she would dance only when someone was without a partner, and ladies would take her arm each time they had to go out and set something right in their dress. She was proud, she felt her position keenly and she was constantly looking around, waiting impatiently for a saviour; but the young men, calculating in their flighty vanity, judged her unworthy of their attention, even though Lizaveta Ivanovna was a hundred times sweeter than the cold yet immodest maidens whose favours they courted.

People called out. ’ ‘Well then, listen! About sixty years ago, my grandmother went to Paris and became the toast of the town. People chased after her to catch a glimpse of La Vénus Moscovite. Richelieu paid court to her, and my grandmother assures me that he almost shot himself because she was so cruel to him. ‘In those days ladies used to play faro. At Court one evening, grandmother lost a large sum of money to the Duke of Orléans. When she got home, as she was peeling off her beauty spots and undoing her hooped petticoat, she informed grandfather of her gambling losses and told him to settle up.

Under pressure from the Soviet authorities, Pasternak declines Nobel Prize. 1962 Publication of Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. 1964 Fall of Khrushchev. 1966–7 First publication of Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita (written in the 1930s). 1974 Solzhenitsyn deported after publication in the West of The Gulag Archipelago. Shukshin dies of a heart attack; his film Snowball Berry Red enjoys huge success. 1985 Mikhail Gorbachev comes to power. Beginning of the period of liberal reforms known as perestroika; the next few years see the first publication in Russia of major works by Kharms, Grossman, Nabokov, Platonov, Shalamov, Solzhenitsyn and many others.

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