Russian Tales of the Fantastic

Klappentext The stories translated in this fascinating anthology reveal the peculiarly Russian world of fantasy: conversations among corpses in a graveyard; a skeleton bounding up to its undertaker at a party; a dead man's account of the wasteland of the afterlife; a woman disappearing into a mirror to become the refleciton within. Are these really incursions into other worlds, or are the characters quite simply mad? Marily Minto gives brief biographical details for each author along with an analysis of the story, providing both general readers and students of Russian literature with a basis on which to build their own interpretations Zusammenfassung The stories translated in this fascinating anthology reveal the peculiarly Russian world of fantasy: conversations among corpses in a graveyard; a skeleton bounding up to its undertaker at a party; a dead man's account of the wasteland of the afterlife; a woman disappearing into a mirror to become the refleciton within. Are these really incursions into other worlds, or are the characters quite simply mad? Marily Minto gives brief biographical details for each author along with an analysis of the story, providing both general readers and students of Russian literature with a basis on which to build their own interpretations Inhaltsverzeichnis 'The Coffin-Maker' by Alexander Pushkin 'St. John's Eve' by Nikolai Gogol 'The Ghost' by Vladimir Odoevsky 'Stoss' by Mikhail Lermontov 'The White Eagle (A Ghost Story)' by Nikolai Leskov 'Bobok' by Fyodor Dostoevsky 'A Song of Triumphant Love' by Ivan Turgenev 'Between Life and Death' by Aleksey Apukhtin 'In the Mirror' by Valery Bryusov 'The Grand Slam' by Leonid Andreyev

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Marilyn Minto
• Con la collaborazione di: Marilyn Minto (Editore), Minto Marilyn (Editore), M. Minto (Traduzione)
• Editore: Bloomsbury Academic
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Tascabile
• Data pubblicazione: 01.01.1998
• Categoria: Narrativa > Romanzi; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura / linguistica slava; Libri scolastici > Altro
• EAN: 9781853992254
• ISBN: 978-1-85399-225-4
• Numero di pagine: 224
• Dimensioni (della confezione): 13.9 x 21.6 x 1.3 cm
• Categorie: FICTION / Short Stories (single author); Short Stories; FICTION / Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology; Myth & legend told as fiction; Fiction: Traditional stories, myths and fairy tales