Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1681374900
ISBN-13
9781681374901
Publisher
New York Review Books
Imprint
New York Review Books
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Oct 13th, 2020
Print length
360 Pages
Weight
444 grams
Dimensions
12.70 x 20.20 x 3.40 cms
Product Classification:
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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A new collection of the renowned Russian writer''s best short work, including a masterful translation of the famous title story.
Nikolai Leskov is the strangest of the great Russian writers of the nineteenth century. His work is closer to the oral traditions of narrative than that of his contemporaries, and served as the inspiration for Walter Benjamin''s great essay "The Storyteller," in which Benjamin contrasts the plotty machinations of the modern novel with the strange, melancholy, but also worldly-wise yarns of an older, slower era that Leskov remained in touch with. The title story is a tale of illicit love and multiple murder that could easily find its way into a Scottish ballad and did go on to become the most popular of Dmitri Shostakovich''s operas. The other stories, all but one newly translated, present the most focused and finely rendered collection of this indispensable writer currently available in English.
Nikolai Leskov is the strangest of the great Russian writers of the nineteenth century. His work is closer to the oral traditions of narrative than that of his contemporaries, and served as the inspiration for Walter Benjamin''s great essay "The Storyteller," in which Benjamin contrasts the plotty machinations of the modern novel with the strange, melancholy, but also worldly-wise yarns of an older, slower era that Leskov remained in touch with. The title story is a tale of illicit love and multiple murder that could easily find its way into a Scottish ballad and did go on to become the most popular of Dmitri Shostakovich''s operas. The other stories, all but one newly translated, present the most focused and finely rendered collection of this indispensable writer currently available in English.
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