The Sweet-Scented Name: And Other Fairy Tales, Fables and Stories (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

Excerpt from The Sweet-Scented Name: And Other Fairy Tales, Fables and Stories

Russia is the land of such short tales. Long novels are exceptional and not very popular. Nearly all Russian writers of note to-day are either poets or essayists or short story writers. Tchekhof, who wrote some twenty volumes of little tales, really made the short story popular. I have made a way for this sort of writing, he is reported to have said to Kuprin. After me it will be easy for others to go on writing such tales. The prophecy has been fulfilled. More than eighty per cent of the fiction published since his death has been collections of little stories.

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Excerpt from The Sweet-Scented Name: And Other Fairy Tales, Fables and Stories

Fedor Sologub is one of the cleverest of contemporary Russian tale-writers and poets. He ranks with Tchekhof and Kuprin and Remizof, though he has very little in common with these writers. He is not a realist; he does not love to comment on life as Tchekhof did, nor to flood his pages with delicious details as does Kuprin; he has nothing of either the melancholy or the energy of Gorky. He is more modern than these; he scents new thoughts, and endeavours to find a new medium of style and language to present them to his age. His genius lies in the power he has to suggest atmosphere.

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Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.