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15 produkter
Cement
Häftad, 1994
216 kr
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A classic of socialist realism, Cement became a model for Soviet fiction in the decades following its publication in the early 1920s. Gleb, a soldier hero, returns from the revolution to a world in transition, as demonstrated by the reorganization of the local cement factory for the massive …
Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin
Häftad, 1995
281 kr
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Ivan Chonkin is a simple, bumbling peasant who has been drafted into the Red Army. Shortly before the outbreak of World War II, he is sent to an obscure village with one week's ration of canned meat and orders to guard a downed plane. Apparently forgotten by his unit, Chonkin resumes his life as a …
Another Life and the House on the Embankment
Häftad, 1999
233 kr
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Widely regarded as a major writer of his generation, Yuri Trifonov tolerated attack and admiration in the Soviet Union. His novellas are celebrated as being in the tradition of great nineteenth-century Russian writing. In Another Life, a woman suddenly widowed attempts to grasp the memory of her …
Brief Excursion and Other Stories
Av Antun Soljan
Häftad, 2000
281 kr
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The novel A Brief Excursion anchors this collection of fiction by one of the most significant postwar Croatian writers. This novel and six stories, including many from Soljan's first book, Traitors, reveal a sensibility both comic and poignant, devoted to questions of identity and solidarity, of …
Divine and Human and Other Stories
Av L.N. Tolstoy
Häftad, 2000
216 kr
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A collection of stories by Leo Tolstoy, in which he draws on the tragic past of Russia to comment on the issues and ideas of his day. The stories show the depth of - and contradictions in - his thought as he tried to reconcile his religious beliefs with humanistic appeals for justice.
Exchange and Other Stories
Häftad, 2002
216 kr
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Yuri Trifonov, now recognized as one of the most distinguished Russian writers of the twentieth century, took a turn toward the controversial - and a leap toward greatness - with the publication of the novellas included in this collection. Two parts of the Moscow trilogy that established Trifonov's …
Noise of Time
Selected Prose
Av Osip Mandel'shtam, Osip Mandelstam m. fl.
Häftad, 2002
235 kr
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Collected prose works by one of Russla's towering literary figures; Osip Mandelstam has in recent years come to be seen as a central figure in European modernism. Though known primarily as a poet, Mandelstam worked in many styles: autobiography, short story, travel writing, and polemic. …
Constance Ring
Av Amalie Skram
Häftad, 2002
236 kr
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Initially refused by the author's scandalized publisher, Constance Ring is now considered a classic of Scandinavian and women's literature, a passionate condemnation of marriage and moral hypocrisy that has drawn comparisons to Madame Bovary and The Awakening. Constance is a naive young woman who …
Architects
Av Stefan Heym
Häftad, 2006
267 kr
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Written between 1963 and 1966, when its publication would have proved to be political dynamite - and its author's undoing - this novel of political intrigue and personal betrayal takes readers into the German Democratic Republic in the late 1950s, shortly after Khruschev's ""secret speech"" …
Oberiu
An Anthology of Russian Absurdism
Häftad, 2006
281 kr
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It was a movement so artfully anarchic, and so quickly suppressed, that readers only began to discover its strange and singular brilliance three decades after it was extinguished-and then only in somizdat and emigre publications. Some called it the last of the Russian avant-garde, and others called …
Sins of Childhood & Other Stories
Häftad, 1997
249 kr
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This is the first English-language collection of stories by the nineteenth-century writer Boleslaw Prus, who has been called the greatest Polish novelist of all time. This new book, containing twelve of his classic short pieces, explores the depth of thought, human warmth, powers of observation, …
Encounters with Lise and Other Stories
Av Leonid Dobychin, Richard C. Borden
Häftad, 2005
233 kr
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In 1994 Russian writer Victor Erofeyev proclaimed Leonid Dobychin ""one of the main heroes of twentieth-century Russian literature."" Obscure for many years, Dobychin is now celebrated as a modernist master. His short stories are hailed as a sort of Soviet version of Joyce's Dubliners - subtle and …
Unmarried Women
Häftad, 2007
233 kr
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Matilde Serao is widely regarded as the most successful Italian woman journalist of the nineteenth century as well as being an important writer of fiction. A great observer of life, Serao focused her writing directly on the most pressing problems of a newly unified Italy, urban poverty, and the …
