short stories written by women

Frank Poulin frankdp at EROLS.COM
Thu Jun 29 22:16:02 UTC 2000


Hi Robert:

I think you should consider a work by Lidia Chukovskaya.  I remember reading
"Sofia Petrovna" one summer an Indiana University.  At the time, I thought
it was a great work and I still plan on re-reading it.

Regards,
Frank
-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Chandler <kcf19 at DIAL.PIPEX.COM>
To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU <SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>
Date: Thursday, June 29, 2000 3:54 PM
Subject: short stories written by women


>Dear all,
>
>As I have said before on this list, I am compiling an anthology of
>Russian short stories for Penguin  Classics. I would be grateful for help
>over 2 questions:
>
>1) Are there any neglected women writers whom I should be including?  At
>present I am including Teffi, Prismanova, Tsvetaeva (yes, she did write
>one excellent short story!), Vera Inber and Petrushevskaya; and possibly
>Tolstaya.
>
>2) The story I am definitely including by Inber is called "Lyaliny
>interesy". Does anyone know of any other outstanding SHORT stories by her?
>
>Many thanks, Robert Chandler
>
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