Best Russian Short Stories
- ISBN-10
- ISBN-13
- 9798683573027
- Series
- Best Russian Short Stories
- Pages
- 242
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2020-09-07
- Author
- Aleksandr Pushkin
Description
During the first two decades of the 19th century in Russia, fable writing became a fad. By all accounts the most widely read fabulist was Ivan Krylov whose stories borrowed heavily from Aesop, La Fontaine, and various Germanic sources. If Krylov's tales made short prose popular in Russia, the stories of the revered poet Aleksandr Pushkin gained serious attention for the form. Somewhat like Mérimée in France (who was one of the first to translate Pushkin into French), Pushkin cultivated a detached, rather classical style for his stories of emotional conflicts ("The Queen of Spades," 1834). Also very popular and respected was Mikhail Lermontov's "novel," A Hero of Our Time (1840), which actually consists of five stories that are more or less related.
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- 2018-08-12
- 282 pages
- Paperback
- Createspace Independent Publishing Platform