short and short short stories

Sara Stefani sara.stefani at YALE.EDU
Sun Feb 26 14:34:12 UTC 2006


You can also try The Penguin Book of Russian Short Stories, edited by David
Richards, with various translators. Unfortunately, it doesn't inclue a
selection from Shalamov, but does have the following:

Pushkin, The Shot
Gogol, The Nose
Lermontov, Taman
Turgenev, Bezhin Lea
Dostoevsky, A Strange Man's Dream
Garshin, The Scarlet Flower
Leskov, The Make-Up Artist
Chekhov, The Party
Gorky, Twenty-Six Men and a Girl
Andreev, The Grand Slam
Tolstoy, After the Ball
Bunin, Ida
Babel, Guy de Maupassant
Zamyatin, The Lion
Platonov, The Third Son
Nabokov, Spring in Fialta
Paustovsky, Streams where Trout Play
Nagibin, The Winter Oak
Kazakov, On the Island
Solzhenitsyn, Zakhar-the-Pouch

Best,
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Quoting Vladimir Shatsev <shatsev at HOTMAIL.COM>:

> Dear Seelangers,
>
> I am looking for the internet resourse or the book with translated 
> into English Russian short or short short stories of 
> Chekhov,Bunin,Babel,Shalamov,Soljenitsin and others. Where could I 
> find something like that?
> Thank you in advance.
>
> Sincerely, Vladimir Shatsev
>
>
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