Seeking to identify 3 short stories

[Peitlova Katarina]

1)  Anatolij Georgievich  Aleksin "Nepravda".
Анатолий Георгиевич Алексин  *Неправда*

Katarina

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From: "Deborah Hoffman" <lino59 at AMERITECH.NET>
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Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2009 3:35 AM
Subject: [SEELANGS] Seeking to identify 3 short stories


Dear Seelangovtsy,
I'm wondering if any of you could help me identify the following stories 
from the plot line.

1.Told from the perspective of a young boy whose father tenderly knots a 
scarf around his neck before leaving for work in the morning, saying "So you 
won't be cold, malysh." One day the boy follows the father and sees his 
father performing the same action with the same words with his mistress and 
realizes the falsehood in life.
2.An old woman lives in a village and realizes her death is near when a 
maple tree taps on her window. Her daughter lives in the city and a peasant 
who did work for the mother must travel to the city to tell her of the 
death. He calls the mother Katerina Ivanovna (I think) and so at first the 
daughter doesn't realize of whom he's speaking. At the station they tell her 
there are no tickets but when she begins crying it turns out the train is 
empty and she's permitted to ride. She goes home and cries on the grave the 
entire night having missed the funeral.
3.A group of hunters goes out one day for what should be a good "hunting 
story." But their destruction and disrespect for the countryside turn the 
story into a satire on bucolic depictions of village life. I remember the 
word voniuchii sticking out describing something at the "feast" they have, 
perhaps the wine, perhaps something else

Thanks for any help. Once upon a time they were being used by Galina McLaws 
at Indiana University in her undergraduate teaching, and I'd like to read 
them again as an adult (?).



Deborah Hoffman
Modern and Classical Language Studies
Vice-Chair, Graduate Student Senate
Kent State University


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