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""[H]ilarious, gloomy, absurd. . . . Popov fits easily into the Russian and Soviet tragicomic tradition: his triumph in these matter-of-fact tales lies in his ability to point out the absurdities in late-Soviet reality while making the absurd seem real."" --Publishers Weekly |""An improbably charming collection . . . from a contemporary storyteller who seems to have appropriated the raffish comic spirit of Russia's famed chronicler of small-town amorality and mayhem , the late Mikhail Zoshchenko . . . An extremely entertaining book."" --Kirkus Reviews |""Popov demonstrates with skill and compassion the fine line that exists between humor and pain. . .This work is highly recommended for all literature collections."" --Library Journal ""Popov is a latter-day Gogol."" --Publishers Weekly
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Popov's short stories move from the village prose genre into the territory of the grotesque via the stark reality of late Soviet life. In a landscape peopled by sympathetic yet stunned characters caught between the harsh routine of everyday existence and the trappings of the modern world, these men and women resort to vodka and to tall tales, and to physical and verbal abuse, to dull the pain of the dehumanizing Soviet regime that is their lot.
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- EditorialNorthwestern University Press
- Año de publicación1997
- ISBN 10 0810113260
- ISBN 13 9780810113268
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- Número de páginas218
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Merry-Making in Old Russia: and Other Stories
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Northwestern University Press, Evanston, 1997
ISBN 10: 0810113260
ISBN 13: 9780810113268
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Librería: Kenneth Mallory Bookseller ABAA, Decatur, GA, Estados Unidos de America
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Hardcover. Condición: Very good. Hardcover. 218pp. Ink name and address on front free endpaper, else a very good hardback bound in publisher's gray cloth and issued without a jacket. Nº de ref. del artículo: 34492
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