Soc. Realist Short Stories/Sketches in English?

[Mark Leiderman]

James Von Geldern and Richard Stites have a bunch of excellent socialist realist
short texts (in prose and poetry) in their anthology "Mass Culture in Soviet
Russia". I would especially recommend Sergei Tretyakov's "Nine Girls"
(pp.216-227).

As to "In the Town of Berdichev", I don't see why it cannot represent Socialist
Realism. It's perfectly fitting the canon by its clear-cut domination of the
ideological values over the personal and the non-political. Askoldov's film is
turning Grossman's work upside down, which was frequently done in the
1960s-1970s.

Mark Lipovetsky

Quoting Alina Israeli <aisrael at AMERICAN.EDU>:

> >I am wondering whether anyone might recommend a "soc. realist" short
> >story (rasskaz or povest'), or collection of short stories, or
> ..............
> >but something a bit different, such as V. Grossman's "In the Town of
> >Berdichev" (is it translated somewhere?) would be of interest as well.
>
>
> I am surprised that you would consider this story socialist realism.
>
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Mark Lipovetsky [Leiderman]
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Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures,
CU-Boulder, UCB 276, Boulder CO 80309
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