Pushkin Collection: A Bad Business

Essential Stories

Pushkin Collection: A Bad Business
Maya Slater, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Nicolas Slater Pasternak
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Paperback
h165 x 120mm - 288pg
4 Nov 2021 UK
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9781782276739
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The stories in this collection range from impossible fantasy to scorching satire. A civil servant finds a new passion for his work when he' s swallowed alive by a crocodile. A struggling writer stumbles on a cemetery where the dead still talk to each other. An arrogant but well-intentioned gentleman provokes an uproar at an aide' s wedding, and in the marital bed. And a young boy finds unexpected salvation on a cold and desolate Christmas Eve. This vivid new translation by Nicolas Pasternak Slater and Maya Slater illuminates Dostoevsky' s dazzling versatility as a writer. His remarkable short fiction swings from wickedly sharp humour to gripping psychological intensity, from cynical social mockery to moments of unexpected tenderness.

A Bad Business: Essential Stories
A Chess Story
Boy Who Stole Attila's Horse, The
Burning Secret
Captain's Daughter, The
City of Lions
Confusion
Dear Reader
England Your England
Fear
Flight, The
I Would Prefer Not To: Essential Stories
Inside the Head of Bruno Schulz
Inside the Whale
Last and the First, The
Looking-Glass, The: Essential Stories
Love and Youth: Essential Stories
Man in a Hurry, The
Montaigne
Murder in the Age of Enlightenment: Essential Stories
New Sorrows of Young W, The
Odessa Stories
Of Sunshine and Bedbugs: Essential Stories
Poems to Night
Red Cavalry
Rendezvous in Venice
Salad Anniversary (Poetry)
Strange Bliss: Essential Stories
Yevgeny Onegin

FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY was born in Oscow in 1821. A strong critic of the tsarist regime, he spent four years in a Siberian prison camp followed by six years of military service in exile. A renowned writer and journalist, is masterpieces of psychological and existential fiction include Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, The Brothers Karamazov and Notes from the Underground. NICOLAS PASTERNAK SLATER, a bilingual nephew of Boris Pasternak, is a retired haemotologist. Published translations include Dostoevsky' s Crime and Punishment, Pasternak' s Doctor Zhivago, Tolstoy' s short stories, and, for Pushkin Press, stories by Ivan Turgenev and Anton Chekhov. MAYA SLATER has published translations of Moliere and other French writers, and co-translations with her husband Nicolas Pasternak Slater. She is a Senoir Research Fellow of Queen Mary University of London.
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781782276739
Published: 4 Nov 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Pushkin Press
Publisher: Pushkin Press
Format: Paperback
Height: 165mm
Width: 120mm
Pages: 288

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