anthology of Russian short stories for Penguin Classics

[Robert Chandler]

Dear All,

If any of you have any suggestions as to what I should add or omit from this provisional list of stories for an anthology I am editing, I shall be very grateful.  It would be especially helpful if you could bear in mind that the anthology is of a fixed length -- 175,000 words. Any addition to the list will need to be balance by a corresponding omission.   With a few exceptions -- Pushkin, Gogol, Platonov and Kharms -- I am not allowing anyone over 6000 words.



                PENGUIN  STORIES


Pushkin Queen of Spades                         8500    words

Lermontov       The Fatalist                                    4500

Gogol   Overcoat                        12500

Turgenev        Clatter of Wheels                               7000

?Dostoevsky  ?Bobok                             6300

Tolstoy Sebastopol in December                          6000
          PLUS, IF ENOUGH SPACE  ?God sees truth, but waits   3000

Leskov  The Darner                              5500
                A slight mistake                        3200
                (Pearl Necklace, from Xmas stories)

Chekhov (1860 - 1904)
        The Darling                                             4100
Rothschilds¹s Violin                          4000
Fat and Thin

Sologub (1863-1927)
Lady in Fetters

Zinovieva-Annibal (1866-1907)
The Monster                                             4600
tr. Jane Costlow, from ³The Tragic Menagerie² (Northwestern Univ. Press,1999)

Bunin (1870-1953)
                Sunstroke                                               2700
                In Paris                                                3200

Teffi (1872-1952)
     The Corsican                                850
     A Family Journey                           2100
     Svetlyi prazdnik'          1500


Zamyatin (1884-1937)
                The Lion                                                1800
                The Cave                                                3500


Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky (b.1887 Kiev; d. Moscow, 1950)
                The Smoky Goblet, (1989,Vosp. o budushchem)     2000
                ??The Unbitten Elbow                                    4000


Inber, Vera (1890-1972)
                Lyalya¹s Interests                                            1500
                Maya                                                    3750


Bulgakov (b. 1891 Kiev; d. 1940 Moscow)
                (Embroidered Towel, tr. Glenny )                                        4800


Tsvetaeva (1892-1941)
                A mother¹s tale, tr. Gambrell                                         2500

Prismanova (1892-1960)
     On guard and on town gardens               1500


Babel (b. 1894 Odessa; d. 1940 Moscow)
                   Fording the Zbruch                       700
     My First Goose                                  1300
                   Rabbi¹s Son                                      800
     Certificate        (Spravka)                       1200
            Doudou      (tr. Holman)                     700

Zoshchenko (1894-1958)
                          An aristocratic lady  1200
                          The bath-house                      900
                          Bees & People               1900
                          The Buoy                                1200

Vsevolod Ivanov (1895-1963)
        Life of Smokotinin           4500 words

Nabokov (b. 1899 St. Petersburg; d. 1977 Montreux)
                   Leonardo, tr. D. Nabokov                                     4200

Platonov (1899-1951)
     The Return                                                10200

Kharms
                   The Old Woman                                        9000

Shalamov (1907-1982)
                        Through the snow                                        350
                        The Duck                                                      1000
                        Someone Else¹s Bread                  350
                        Snake Charmer                                     2000
                        Berries                                                1000

Solzhenitsyn    (1918- )
                        What a Pity                             1300

Petrushevskaya   (1935- )
                Crossing the field                             1000
                A Dark Fate                                   1100
                Another Land                              650
         Medea                                             3000


?Dovlatov
                        ?Stary Petukh

Nina Sadur      Irons and Diamonds              3500

Asar Eppel      (1935- )
                   Red Caviar Sandwiches                4500
                        ??July                                                   3000

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