Sentimental Tales

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Zoshchenko is the wittiest and most perceptive of Soviet satirists. Boris Dralyuk is the first translator to succeed in bringing his wit into English. Comedy is largely a matter of timing and Dralyuk, like Zoshchenko himself, has an impeccable sense of rhythm. Robert Chandler, translator of Vasily Grossman, Andrei Platonov, Teffi, and many others