Stories / articles about immigrant life

[Wayles Browne]

A columnist for Novoe Russkoe Slovo in New York wrote a few books
of satirical sketches about Russian immigrant life several decades ago, one
in English and two in Russian:

Author/Creator:	 Argus, 1900-1970.
Title:	Moscow-on-the-Hudson, by M.K. Argus [pseud.] With illus. by the author.
Published:	New York : Harper, [1951]
Description:	[1st ed.]
	182 p. illus. 20 cm.

Author/Creator:	 Argus, 1900-1970.
Title:	Poluser'ezno, polushutia ; satira, iumor, lirika.
Published:	Niu Iork, Chaika [c1959]
Description:	283 p. 22 cm.

Author/Creator:	 Argus, 1900-1970.
Title:	Drugaia zhizn' i bereg dal'nii.
Published:	Niu Iork, Chaika [1969]
Description:	436 p. illus. 21 cm.

It has been some time since I looked at them, but I recall one
variation on the cliche' about grand dukes becoming taxi drivers,
in which Argus said that this might be an example of finding
one's true calling late in life.


At 1:19 PM -0400 8/17/07, Benjamin Rifkin wrote:
>Dear SEELANGers:
>
>I am finishing up a syllabus for two students who will do a service-learning
>course with me in fall 2007.  I would be happy to hear suggestions from
>colleagues of short stories or articles on the topic of Russian immigrant
>life in the US.
>
>With thanks to all,
>
>Ben Rifkin
>
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Wayles Browne, Assoc. Prof. of Linguistics
Department of Linguistics
Morrill Hall 220, Cornell University
Ithaca, New York 14853, U.S.A.

tel. 607-255-0712 (o), 607-273-3009 (h)
fax 607-255-2044 (write FOR W. BROWNE)
e-mail ewb2 at cornell.edu

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