Leonid Dobychin

Broschiertes Buch

Encounters with Lise and Other Stories

Beschreibung

Writing in the "Times Literary Supplement "in 1994, Russian writer Victor Erofeyev proclaimed Leonid Dobychin "one of the main heroes of twentieth-century Russian literature." Obscure for many years, Dobychin is now celebrated as a modernist master. His short stories are black-humored slices of life from the early days of the Soviet Union--subtle and tightly constructed miniatures linked by recurring themes and full of ironic juxtaposition, context, allusion, and style. For Dobychin early Soviet society was an absurdist wonderland.

Autor

Leonid Dobychin was born in Dvinsk (today's Daugavpils), Latvia, in 1894. For most of his life he lived in provincial towns and eked out a living as a statistician. In early 1936, shortly after the publication of his novel The Town of N, Dobychin was attacked by the Leningrad Writers' Union. He disappeared the next day and was never seen again. The Town of N was published in English by Northwestern University Press in 1998. Richard C. Borden is the author of The Art of Writing Badly: Valentin Kataev's Mauvism and the Rebirth of Russian Modernism (1999) and co-translator of Dobychin's The Town of N (1998), both published by Northwestern University Press. Natalia Belova is also co-translator of Dobychin's The Town of N.

Produktdetails

• European Classics
• Verlag: Northwestern University Press
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: Oktober 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 204mm x 131mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 214g
• ISBN-13: 9780810119727
• ISBN-10: 0810119722
• Artikelnr.: 21135937