Sisters of the Cross

The first English translation of this remarkable 1910 novel by Alexei Remizov, one of the most influential members of the Russian Symbolist movement, Sisters of the Cross is a masterpiece of early modernist fiction. In the tradition of Gogol's Petersburg Tales and Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment, it deploys densely packed psychological prose and fluctuating narrative perspective to tell the story of a "poor clerk" who rebels against the suffering and humiliation afflicting both his own life and the lives of the remarkable women whom he encounters in the tenement building where he lives in Petersburg. Remizov is best known as a writer of short stories and fairy tales, but this early novel, masterfully translated by Roger Keys and Brian Murphy, is perhaps his most significant work of sustained artistic prose.

List of contents

Introduction
List of Characters
Sisters of the Cross

About the author

Alexei Remizov. Translated by Roger Keys and Brian Murphy

Product details

• Authors: Alexei Remeizov, Aleksei Remizov, Alexei Remizov
• Assisted by: Roger Keys (Translation), Keys Roger (Translation), Brian Murphy (Translation), Murphy Brian (Translation)
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2017
• EAN: 9780231185431
• ISBN: 978-0-231-18543-1
• No. of pages: 192
• Series: Russian Library; Russian Library
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Russia, FICTION / Literary, Fiction in translation, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Russian & Soviet