TY  - BOOK
AU  - Grin,Alexander
AU  - Karetnyk,Bryan
AU  - Scherr,Barry
AU  - Scherr,Barry P.
TI  - Fandango and Other Stories
T2  - Russian Library
SN  - 9780231189767
AV  - PG3476.G68 A2 2020
U1  - 891.73/5 23
PY  - 2020///]
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Columbia University Press
KW  - Short stories, Russian
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Translations into English
KW  - LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Russian & Former Soviet Union
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; INTRODUCTION: THE MAN FROM GRINLANDIA --; TRANSLATOR’S NOTE --; QUARANTINE --; “SHE” --; LANPHIER COLONY --; THE DEVIL OF THE ORANGE WATERS --; THE POISONED ISLAND --; THE HEART OF THE WILDERNESS --; THE RAT-CATCHER --; FANDANGO; restricted access
N2  - In a bucolic idyll, a terrorist agonizes over the act of violence he is about to commit. On a remote island in the South Pacific, the investigation of a case of mass suicide reveals further mysteries. In a far-flung colony, a cynical trio sends an unwitting man into the wilderness in search of a chimera. Mixing romance and high adventure, intrigue and the fantastic, these magnificent tales by one of Russia’s most enduringly popular writers deftly probe the depths of human nature and desire.Fandango and Other Stories presents a selection of essential short fiction by Alexander Grin, Russia’s counterpart to Robert Louis Stevenson, Edgar Allan Poe, and Alexandre Dumas. By turns a sailor, a dockworker, a vagrant, a gold prospector, a lumberjack, a soldier, a deserter, an agitator, an exile, a prisoner, and a runaway, Grin wrote seven novels and over three hundred short stories that transport the reader to a realm of pure art and imagination. His ingenious plots explore conflicts of the individual and society in a romantic world populated by a cast of eccentric, cosmopolitan characters. Fandango and Other Stories includes works drawn from across the entirety of Grin’s varied career to encompass the range and sophistication of his writing. Bryan Karetnyk’s elegant translations bring Grin’s distinctive voice to a new generation of readers
UR  - https://doi.org/10.7312/grin18976
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780231548502
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780231548502/original
ER  -