Encounters with Lise and Other Stories |
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| Author:
| Dobychin, Leonid |
| Editor:
| Borden, Richard C. |
| Introduction by:
| Borden, Richard C. |
| Translator:
| Borden, Richard C.
Belova, Natalia |
| Series title: | European Classics Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8101-1972-7 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 2005 |
| Publisher: | Northwestern University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $18.95 |
Book Description:
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Writing in the
Times Literary Supplement 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 black-humored slices of life from the early days of the Soviet Union--subtle and tightly constructed miniatures linked by recurring themes and full of ironic juxtaposition, context, allusion, and style....
More Description Writing in the Times Literary Supplement 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 black-humored slices of life from the early days of the Soviet Union--subtle and tightly constructed miniatures linked by recurring themes and full of ironic juxtaposition, context, allusion, and style. For Dobychin early Soviet society was an absurdist wonderland.