Pushkin Collection: The Beggar and Other Stories
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Translated for the first time, the best short stories by the 'modernist master' Gazdanov, author of The Spectre of Alexander Wolf. In a Metro underpass, bald and dressed in rags, stands a silent beggar. In the evening, he walks the deserted streets of Paris; at night, he sleeps in a small, foetid crate vacated by the death of another beggar. He is poor and he is ill, but, on reflection, he is free. Never published before in English, this marvelously translated collection of tightly written, lyrical works represent marvelously compact miniatures of all the major strands that Gazdanov explores in his novels. The senselessness of life, the nature of fate, and the richness of the inner life - these brilliant and moving stories have it all.
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Pushkin Collection: The Beggar and Other Stories, Gaito Gasdanow, Bryan Karetnyk
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- Released
- 2018
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- Title
- Pushkin Collection: The Beggar and Other Stories
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Gaito Gasdanow, Bryan Karetnyk
- Publisher
- Pushkin Press
- Released
- 2018
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 221
- ISBN10
- 1782274014
- ISBN13
- 9781782274018
- Series
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- Mystery Novels, Philosophical Topics, Short Stories, Russia, Novellas, Russian Literature, Russian History
- Rating
- 3.8 out of 5
- Description
- Translated for the first time, the best short stories by the 'modernist master' Gazdanov, author of The Spectre of Alexander Wolf. In a Metro underpass, bald and dressed in rags, stands a silent beggar. In the evening, he walks the deserted streets of Paris; at night, he sleeps in a small, foetid crate vacated by the death of another beggar. He is poor and he is ill, but, on reflection, he is free. Never published before in English, this marvelously translated collection of tightly written, lyrical works represent marvelously compact miniatures of all the major strands that Gazdanov explores in his novels. The senselessness of life, the nature of fate, and the richness of the inner life - these brilliant and moving stories have it all.