Teffi.

[Francoise Rosset]

>In a course on the C20 short story I am including the following:
>'Korsikanets', 'Kogda rak svistnul', 'Svetlyi prazdnik', 'Lyubov'', 'Tonkie
>pis'ma' and 'Semeinaya poezdka'.  Can you give us the titles of a few other
>stories you especially like?

Don't have the originals at hand where I am right 
now. Personally I like her poetry, the 
overwrought and tongue-in-cheek as well as the 
lyrical pieces, and I use it in our poetry course 
(two titles off-hand are "Na ostrove moix 
vospominanii" and "Ja - beyi siren'," plus 
several gemstone titles).
But then, I like her sister's poetry too - 
Lokhvitskaia-, and the poetry is not so relevant 
to the original request about comedy.

As for the stories, I am most partial to her 
stories about the Russian émigré community in 
France,  and I always get a big kick out of the 
short play "The Woman Question." I've read it 
only in English (in Catriona Kelly's Anthology). 
That particular piece has multiple layers of 
irony, but it also works as completely straight 
role-reversal shtick.
-FR




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Francoise Rosset
Russian and Russian Studies
Interim Coordinator, Women's Studies
Wheaton College                         
Norton, Massachusetts 02766
        
phone: 	(508) 286-3696
fax #:   	(508) 286-3640
e-mail: FRosset at wheatonma.edu

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