Sentimental Tales - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sentimental Tales write by Mikhail Zoshchenko. This book was released on 2018-07-31. Sentimental Tales available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “Dralyuk’s new translation of Sentimental Tales, a collection of Zoshchenko’s stories from the 1920s, is a delight that brings the author’s wit to life.”—The Economist Mikhail Zoshchenko’s Sentimental Tales are satirical portraits of small-town characters on the fringes of Soviet society in the first decade of Bolshevik rule. The tales are narrated by one Kolenkorov, a writer not very good at his job, who takes credit for editing the tales in a series of comic prefaces. Yet beneath Kolenkorov’s intrusive narration and sublime blathering, the stories are genuinely moving. They tell tales of unrequited love and amorous misadventures among down-on-their-luck musicians, provincial damsels, aspiring poets, and liberal aristocrats hopelessly out of place in the new Russia, against a backdrop of overcrowded apartments, scheming, and daydreaming. Zoshchenko’s deadpan style and sly ventriloquy mask a biting critique of Soviet life—and perhaps life in general. An original perspective on Soviet society in the 1920s and simply uproariously funny, Sentimental Tales at last shows Anglophone readers why Zoshchenko is considered among the greatest humorists of the Soviet era. “A book that would make Gogol guffaw.”—Kirkus Reviews “If you find Chekhov a bit tame and want a more bite to your fiction, then you need a dose of Zoshchenko, the premier Russian satirist of the twentieth century . . . Snap up this thin volume and enjoy.”—Russian Life “Mikhail Zoshchenko masterfully exhibits a playful seriousness. . . . Juxtaposing joyful wit with the bleakness of Soviet Russia, Sentimental Tales is a potent antidote for Russian literature’s dour reputation.”—Foreword Reviews “Superb.”—Los Angeles Review of Books
Sentimental Tales
Sentimental Tales - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sentimental Tales write by William Russell. This book was released on 1771. Sentimental Tales available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Sentimental Tales, in Two Volumes
Sentimental Tales, in Two Volumes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sentimental Tales, in Two Volumes write by William Russell (LL. D. Historical Writer.). This book was released on 1771. Sentimental Tales, in Two Volumes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Sentimental Stories
Sentimental Stories - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sentimental Stories write by Enrique Gómez Carrillo. This book was released on 2019-10-02. Sentimental Stories available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Sentimental Stories by Guatemalan born Enrique Gómez Carrillo, man of letters, duelist and dandy, originally published in 1900 and here presented here in English for the first time in a translation by Jessica Sequeira, is an exquisite selection of nine tales that covers the ground from desire to insanity, fulfillment in erotic love to suffering in intense anguish. In these stories of solitary figures struggling with incorrigible sentimentality, we meet an aspiring poet who becomes obsessed with what he believes to be Cleopatra's wig, an eccentric doctor who sells a cure for artistic enthusiasm to fictional writers and artists, and a military man who suffers from jealousy due to an anonymous letter, all told with the light touch of a writer who found beauty in surfeit and exaggeration, dissolution and extravagance.
Broccoli and Other Tales of Food and Love
Broccoli and Other Tales of Food and Love - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Broccoli and Other Tales of Food and Love write by Lara Vapnyar. This book was released on 2009-06-02. Broccoli and Other Tales of Food and Love available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Each of Lara Vapnyar's six stories invites us into a world where food and love intersect, along with the overlapping pleasures and frustrations of Vapnyar's uniquely captivating characters. Meet Nina, a recent arrival from Russia, for whom colorful vegetables represent her own fresh hopes and dreams . . . Luda and Milena, who battle over a widower in their English class with competing recipes for cheese puffs, spinach pies, and meatballs . . . and Sergey, who finds more comfort in the borscht made by a paid female companion than in her sexual ministrations. They all crave the taste and smell of home, wherever—and with whomever—that may turn out to be. A roundup of recipes are the final taste of this delicious collection.
