
By Robert Chandler
From the reign of the Tsars within the early nineteenth century to the cave in of the Soviet Union and past, the quick tale has lengthy occupied a vital position in Russian tradition. integrated are items from the various stated masters of Russian literature - together with Pushkin, Turgenev, Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, and Solzhenitsyn - along stories by means of long-suppressed figures corresponding to the subversive Kryzhanowsky and the surrealist Shalamov. no matter if written in response to the cruelty of the bourgeoisie, the paperwork of communism or the torture of the legal camps, they give a superbly wide-ranging and fascinating illustration of 1 of the main important and enduring kinds of Russian literature.