love and hate recommendations...

[Tatiana Osipovich]

I will suggest:
Nadezhda Teffi; "All About Love" (short stories)
Ivan Bunin (many short stories; many collections)
and Glas periodical: "New Russian Writing "Love and Fear"

My best,
Tatiana Osipovich

--On Monday, July 31, 2006 7:01 PM +0100 "A.Smith" 
<a.smith at CAVEROCK.NET.NZ> wrote:

> Dear Amarilis Lugo de Fabritz,
>
> If you are looking for some interesting 20th-c. Texts, then I could
> suggest to consider Tatiana Tolstaia's collections of stories ("On
> the Golden Porch", 1989; and "Sleepwalker in a Fog", 1992): they
> contain some entertaining stories that feature both love and hate
> (especially Poet and the Muse); Vladimir Nabokov's "Nabokov's Dozen:
> 13 stories" (New York, 1958; London, 1959): this book also includes
> some memorable stories on love (for example, Spring in Fialta, The
> potato Elf) and hate/hatred (Cloud, Castle, Lake)...
> As for poems: you might wish to glance at the latest collection of
> Russian 20th-c. poetry in English: "The Stray Dog Cabaret: A Book of
> Russian Poems" translated by Paul Shmidt. It contains a new
> translation into English of Tsvetaeva's long love poem "Poem of The
> End"...(published The New York Review of books)-- forthcoming soon....
>
> Best,
>
> Alexandra Smith
>
> Alexandra Smith (PhD, University of London)
> Lecturer in Russian, University of Sheffield
> Alexandra.Smith at sheffield.ac.uk
>
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