TY - BOOK AU - Aksyonov,Vasily AU - Andreyev,Leonid AU - Averchenko,Arkady AU - Babel,Isaac AU - Brougher,Valentina AU - Buida,Yury AU - Bulgakov,Mikhail AU - Bunin,Ivan AU - Daniel,Yuli AU - Dombrovsky,Yury AU - Dovlatov,Sergei AU - Ermakov,Oleg AU - Erofeyev,Victor AU - Gorenshtein,Fridrikh AU - Guro,Elena AU - Iskander,Fazil AU - Ivanov,Vsevolod AU - Kazakov,Yury AU - Kharms,Daniil AU - Krzhizhanovsky,Sigizmund AU - Kuprin,Aleksander AU - Levkin,Andrei AU - Lipovetsky,Mark AU - Lunts,Lev AU - Makanin,Vladimir AU - Mamleyev,Yury AU - Miller,Frank AU - Nabokov,Vladimir AU - Okudzhava,Bulat AU - Pelevin,Viktor AU - Petrushevskaya,Lyudmila AU - Platonov,Andrei AU - Polyanskaya,Irina AU - Remizov,Aleksei AU - Rubinshtein,Lev AU - Shalamov,Varlam AU - Sholokhov,Mikhail AU - Shukshin,Vasily AU - Sinyavsky,Andrei AU - Sologub,Fyodor AU - Solzhenitsyn,Aleksandr AU - Sorokin,Vladimir AU - Teffi,Nadezhda AU - Tendryakov,Vladimir AU - Tolstaya,Tatiana AU - Tolstoy,Aleksei AU - Tuchkov,Vladimir AU - Ulitskaya,Lyudmila AU - Vishnevetskaya,Marina AU - Vorobyov,Konstantin AU - Yuzefovich,Leonid AU - Zamyatin,Evgeny AU - Zoshchenko,Mikhail TI - 50 Writers: An Anthology of 20th Century Russian Short Stories T2 - Cultural Syllabus SN - 9781936235223 PY - 2011///] CY - Boston, MA : PB - Academic Studies Press, KW - LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Russian & Former Soviet Union KW - bisacsh KW - A Tolstoy KW - Babel KW - Bulgakov KW - Bunin KW - Dovlatov KW - Eastern Europe KW - Kharms KW - Nabokov KW - Platonov KW - Russia KW - Solzhenitsyn KW - Sorokin KW - Zamyatin KW - course reader KW - culture KW - literary trends KW - literature KW - modernisms KW - political dissidents KW - postmodernism KW - short stories KW - socialist realism KW - style KW - translated fiction KW - writing N1 - Frontmatter --; TABLE OF CONTENTS --; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --; GLOSSARY --; INTRODUCTION --; ONCE UPON A TIME --; THE INVOKER OF THE BEAST --; GAMBRINUS --; THE LITTLE DEVIL --; THUS LIFE PASSES --; FOUR PEOPLE --; SCENES FROM THE LIFE OF THE WORKER PANTELEI GRYMZIN --; BLACK IRIS --; THE RED CROWN --; BLACK MAGIC --; THE FEMALE FISH (Deacon Vasily’s Story) --; GEDALI --; FAMILY MAN --; OUTGOING PAPER NUMBER 27 --; THE GARDENER OF THE EMIR OF BUKHARA --; THE VIPER (A Long Story about One Girl) --; THE FLOOD --; DOUBTING MAKAR --; SIX STORIES FROM INCIDENTS --; CLOUD, CASTLE, LAKE --; THE SMOKY GLASS GOBLET --; TANYA --; THE TENANTS --; EULOGY --; THE HOUSE WITH A TURRET --; “VICTORY” --; HANDS --; A GERMAN IN FELT BOOTS --; MY UNCLE OF THE HIGHEST PRINCIPLES --; CHUDIK --; I BELIEVE! --; BREAD FOR A DOG --; YOU CRIED BITTERLY IN YOUR SLEEP --; LITTLE ARM, LEG, CUCUMBER . . . --; MY OLDER COUSIN --; GIRL OF MY DREAMS --; THE FAKIR --; GALOSHES --; SURREALISM IN A PROLETARIAN DISTRICT --; PASSING THROUGH --; THE YOUNG --; BUTTERFLY. 1987 --; THE LAST WAR STORY --; A BRIEF HISTORY OF PAINTBALL IN MOSCOW --; THE QUEEN OF SPADES --; MORE AND MORE ANGELS --; THE SAMURAI’S DREAM --; CURRENCY --; SNOW FALLS EVER SO QUIETLY --; TEACHERS WITHOUT PUPILS, or FROM UNDER THE RUBBLE --; THE LORD OF THE STEPPES --; NEVER --; EXPERIENCE IN DEMONSTRATING MOURNING --; THE DUMP; restricted access N2 - The largest, most comprehensive anthology of its kind, this volume brings together significant, representative stories from every decade of the twentieth century. It includes the prose of officially recognized writers and dissidents, both well-known and neglected or forgotten, plus new authors from the end of the century. The selections reflect the various literary trends and approaches to depicting reality in this era: traditional realism, modernism, socialist realism, and post-modernism. Taken as a whole, the stories capture every major aspect of Russian life, history and culture in the twentieth century. The rich array of themes and styles will be of tremendous interest to students and readers who want to learn about Russia through the engaging genre of the short story UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781618110107 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781618110107 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781618110107/original ER -