short short stories, even miniatures

[Adrian Wanner]

Dear Mr. Shatsev,
There is no such anthology in English, as far as I know, but I 
recently published an bilingual Russian-German anthology of Russian 
prose poems and "mini-stories."  See Adrian Wanner, ed. and transl., 
Miniaturwelten: Russische Prosagedichte von Turgenjew bis Charms 
(Zurich: Pano Verlag, 2004).  The book contains ca. 100 texts by 17 
authors, including Turgenev, Garshin, Annenskii, Sologub, 
Sinov'eva-Annibal, Kandinsky, Bunin, A. Dobroliubov, I. Konevskoi, 
Remizov, Guro, Belyi, Blok, B. Livshits, A. Gastev, Khlebnikov and 
Kharms.
Adrian Wanner

>Oh yes.Thanks a lot for your recommendations.I will find the 
>recommended books.
>Probably I was not very precise. I am looking for a  short short 
>stories  in translation such as Pushkin's  TABLE TALK,Tourgenev's 
>POEMS IN PROSE, Chekhov's RARA AVIS( Constance Garnet did not 
>translate it) and Zapisniye knizhki, Bunin's BERNAR or something 
>even smaller,Tolstoi READING CIRCLE, Something from Rozanov, 
>Babel's CEMETERY IN THE TOWN OF KOZIN and some other miniatures,Ily 
>Ilf's  ZAPISNIYE KNIZHKI,   Soljenitsin's KROHOTKI,Shalamov's 
>miniatures about Gulag,
>Dovlatov's ZAPISNIYE KNIZHKI.
>Living in Toronto now I continue to be active in teaching Russian 
>literature for my Canadian friends. I think that short short stories 
>might be a  productive introduction before reading Fathers ,Sons or 
>War and Peace etc.
>I am interested in the texts of such type and  first of all in their 
>availability in internet.
>Please give me some ideas where to get it.
>Than you in advance.
>
>Sincerely,Vladimir Shatsev
>PS By the way how it is in English - Zapisnye knizhki ?
>
>VS.
>

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Adrian J. Wanner
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Professor of Russian and Comparative Literature
The Pennsylvania State University
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University Park, PA 16802

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