Soc. Realist Short Stories/Sketches in English?

[Amy Adams]

Dear SEELANGERS ~
I'm also designing a new course on Socialist Realism ("Men of Steel").
I've consulted the web site sovlit.com in order to put together a
reading list and jog my memory. I wonder if anyone else has evaluated
this site (apologies if it's already been mentioned). It provides
summaries of most of the Soviet works it lists and also has a "Texts"
section that provides full on-line English translations of certain works
(not necessarily of Socialist Realism, though). For an undergraduate
course that might also include film and the visual arts in additional to
literature, the site might help you find a work or two that's just
enough.

Best, Amy Adams

Amy Singleton Adams
Associate Professor of Russian 
College of the Holy Cross
Worcester, MA 01610 USA
(508) 793-2543
aadams at holycross.edu
aadams at holycross.edu

>>> papazian at WAM.UMD.EDU 03/24/06 4:47 PM >>>
Perhaps I should have worded my e-mail more carefully.  It's 
interesting to read the story (from 1934) in relation to "soc. 
realism," and that was what I was thinking about.

I'm replying to the whole list rather than to Alina alone because it 
seems like a good opportunity to mention the recent, really interesting 
essay in the New Yorker on Grossman by Keith Gessen.  This article also 
mentions a new book of Grossman's wartime writings, published by the 
New York Review of Books.  I recall there was a discussion of 
Grossman's translation a while back on the list; maybe this article in 
The New Yorker will help bring Grossman a wider readership.  Here's the 
link.

http://www.newyorker.com/critics/content/articles/060306crbo_books

Best,
ep

>
>> 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.
>
> __________________________
>  Alina Israeli
>  LFS, American University
>  4400 Mass. Ave., NW
>  Washington, DC 20016
>
>
Elizabeth A. Papazian
Assistant Professor of Russian
School of Languages
3215 Jimenez Hall
University of Maryland
College Park, MD  20742

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